Chinelo Onwualu is a writer, editor, and unrepentant dog person living in Toronto, Canada. She is a non-fiction editor of Anathema Magazine and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African speculative fiction, and the former chief spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society. Onwualu has a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University and has worked as a reporter and online editor in Nigeria and the United States. She was also a senior editor for Cassava Republic Press, one of the leading independent publishers in Africa. Onwualu is a 2014 veteran of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, which she attended as the recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies and magazines, including Uncanny magazine, Strange Horizons, The Kalahari Review, and Brittle Paper. She has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction, and the Short Story Day Africa Award.