Wole Talabi

Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Lightspeed, and several other publications. He has edited three anthologies: Africanfuturism (2020), which was nominated for the Locus Award in 2021, Lights Out: Resurrection (2016), and These Words Expose Us (2014). His fiction has been a finalist for multiple awards including the Nebula Award (2022), the prestigious Caine Prize (2018), the Locus Award (2022), the Jim Baen Memorial Award (2022), and the Nommo Award, which he won in 2018 and 2020. His work has also been translated into Spanish, Norwegian, Chinese, Italian, Bengali, and French. His collection Incomplete Solutions (2019) is published by Luna Press. His novel Shigidi is forthcoming from DAW Books in 2023. He likes scuba diving, elegant equations, and oddly shaped things. He currently lives and works in Malaysia.