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Kechi Nomu is a poet and prose writer based in Lagos. Her writing has appeared recently in Ploughshares online, Electric Literature, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Fortunate Traveller. She is a 2017 finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a 2019 semi-finalist for the Boston Review Aura Estrada Short Story Prize.
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