HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, along with eight novels, including Parasol Against the Axe, Gingerbread, White Is for Witching, which was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Boy, Snow, Bird, which was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2009, Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine's "25 under 25" list, and in 2013 she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She lives in Prague, Czechia.
