Vanessa Onwuemezi is a British writer and poet. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College in 2018. In 2019 she won the White Review Short Story Prize for «At the Heart of Things». Her debut short story collection «Dark Neighbourhood» (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) was named one of the «Guardian»’s Best Books of the Year and was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize in 2022. In 2026 she is a Fellow with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and is working on her first novel. Vanessa Onwuemezi lives in London, for the period of her DAAD fellowship in Berlin.
Last Update: 2026