Efemia Chela

Efemia Chela (born 1991)^[1] is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, literary critic, and editor. Her first published story, "Chicken", was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing.^{[2] [3] [4]} Chela has had short stories and poems published in New Internationalist,^[5] Wasafiri,^[6][7] Token ^[8] and Pen Passages: Africa.^[9] In 2016, she co-edited the Short Story Day Africa collection,^[10][11] Migrations.^[12] She was also the Andrew W. Mellon Writer-in-Residence at Rhodes University in 2018. She is currently the Francophone and Contributing editor for The Johannesburg Review of Books.^[13][14]

Born in Zambia, Efemia Chela grew up in England, Ghana, Botswana and South Africa. She graduated with a BA degree in French, Politics, and Classical civilizations from Rhodes University in South Africa,^[15] and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France.^[16] Chela's short stories have been published in Short.Sharp.Stories, Brittle Paper and most recently in As You Like It, the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award anthology. Efemia contributed an essay to Touch, a collection of essays edited by Tiffany Mugo and Kim Windvogel.^[17]