Nigerian novelist and short-story writer ‘Pemi Aguda, finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, will read from her acclaimed collection Ghostroots. True to its name, the book weaves horror, fantasy, and myth in short stories that explore women’s roles and female relationships as well as family conflict and identity. The reading will be followed by a conversation between ‘Pemi Aguda and writer and University of Nevada, Las Vegas Master of Fine Arts student Delight Ejiaka. The program will be followed by a book-signing.

’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has won O. Henry Prizes, a Nommo Award for Short Story, a Henfield Prize, a Tyson Prize for Fiction, Hopwood Awards, and the Writivism Prize. Her work has been supported by an Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship, a Juniper Summer Workshop scholarship, an Aspen Words Emerging Writer fellowship, and her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine.

Parking/getting there:  The Beverly Theater is located next to The Writer’s Block at 515 S Sixth St., Las Vegas, NV 89101. Street parking is available off Bonneville between 6th and 10th. For additional information about parking/getting to The Beverly Theater, please visit www.thebeverlytheater.com.

Questions? Please email blackmountaininstitute@unlv.edu or call 702-895-5542.