Kemi Falodun (b. 1993) is a writer, journalist and editor from Owo, Nigeria. Her writing explores mental health, social justice, disorders, and culture, particularly photography and film.

She is an alumna of Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop and the inaugural BookArtArea Workshop. She was a Writer-in-Residence at Ebedi Writers Residency and received a fellowship from One World Media (2021). She participated in the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip (Borders Within II) in 2017 and her essay chapbook A Life in Transit was later published. 

Kemi’s work has been published in Al Jazeera, Catapult, The Guardian UK, Guernica, Africa is a Country, and several platforms. She volunteered for Saraba Magazine as a digital editor and assistant editor. 

In 2020, she co-started the POBIN Project to document stories of police brutality in Nigeria. 

She has an MFA in fiction from Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she won the 2023 Henfield Prize in Fiction and Hopwood Awards in Nonfiction and Journalism (the David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism). She also received the Zell Fellowship. 

 Photo credit: Dirk Skiba