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'Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She was a 2021 fiction fellow with the Miami Book Fair. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Granta, American Short Fiction, and One Story, among others.
While at MacDowell, Aguda wrote new short stories and worked on revisions to her short story collection, Ghostroots (W.W. Norton, 2024), and novel-in-progress, which won the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers award in 2020. The novel is about Lagos, water, and belonging.
Ghostroots (Short Story Collection)
'Pemi Aguda worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…