Kenechi Udogu is a Nigerian-born London-based writer and architect whose work centres on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres who stand strong in challenging conditions. Augmented was the inaugural winner of the Imagined Futures Prize. Her work was awarded a Highly Commended Text win for FAB Prize , and she was a runner up for the Writers and Artists Year Book Your Next Obsession in YA Fiction Competition, in association with YALC. She is an alumna of the HarperCollins Author Academy and the All Stories mentorship programme. Her short story was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her sci-fi short story was published in an issue of Dark Matter Magazine. She is a book contributor to Worldreader's free digital library (a literacy global non-profit organisation). She loves singing with choirs, and hopes to one day figure out how to hibernate in winter.