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) and text from her essay chapbook A Life in Transit (2019) was exhibited in Lagos and New York. She won the 2023 Henfield Prize in Fiction and a Hopwood Award (David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism).

Kemi’s work has been published in Al Jazeera, Catapult, The Guardian UK, Guernica, Africa is a Country, and several platforms across the world. 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’s currently an MFA student in fiction at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. 

 Photo credit: Dirk Skiba