I am a writer, essayist, and journalist of Sierra Leonean and Vincentian heritage. My short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German. My essays and criticism have appeared in The American Scholar, Africa is a Country, Contemporary & and The Guardian. I was an International Writer-in-Residence at Cove Park, Scotland, and a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice in Washington, DC. My short story Stickfighting Days won the 2010 Caine Prize.

I live in Côte d’Ivoire and Germany. To read about my
new novel, Wilderness of Mirrors, click here. To read my essays, criticism and short stories click here.