Nuzo Onoh was born on 22 September 1962 and is a Nigerian-British writer.
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Nuzo Onoh grew up the third of eight children of the late Chief Mrs Caroline Onoh, a former headteacher.
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Nuzo Onoh experienced the Biafran war with Nigeria as a child refugee within numerous Biafran villages and towns and at the age of 13, she was the victim of an attempted "exorcism" by a local pastor.
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On 17 June 2023, Nuzo Onoh became a recipient of the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Nuzo Onoh attended Queen's School, in Enugu, Nigeria, as well as The Mount School, York, a Quaker boarding school in York, and later, St Andrew's Tutorial College, Cambridge, a sixth-form college in Cambridge, England.
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Nuzo Onoh holds a law degree and a master's degree in writing from Warwick University.
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Nuzo Onoh is the author of The Sleepless, Dead Corpse, The Unclean, A Dance for the Dead and Where the Dead Brides Gather.
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Nuzo Onoh's work has appeared in magazines, podcasts, and anthologies, including the anthology REVELATIONS: Horror Writers for Climate Action.
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Nuzo Onoh has contributed to several award-winning anthologies, among which are Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, winner of the British Fantasy Award for "Best Anthology" in 2021 and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology.
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Nuzo Onoh has had work in the science-fiction magazine Starburst.
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Nuzo Onoh is listed in the reference book 80 Black Women in Horror and 160 Black Women in Horror.
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Nuzo Onoh's works have been longlisted and shortlisted and have been included in academic studies, including the Routledge Handbook of African Literature, Bloomsbury's Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction and Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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Nuzo Onoh has appeared on media platforms, discussing her writing and African Horror as a genre.
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Nuzo Onoh has written blogs for Female First Magazine and Black Ballad magazine.
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Nuzo Onoh has been mentioned as one of the British horror writers bringing a positive change to the way black and minority races are portrayed in mainstream horror fiction.
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Nuzo Onoh has given talks and lectures, including at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies.
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Nuzo Onoh writes about vengeful African ghosts with unfinished business and has been described by one journalist as the "Queen of African Horror".
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Nuzo Onoh has two children, Candice Onyeama and Carmen Jija Gyoh.