Lived Experience Conversation Series: Blessing O. Nwodo

Feminist, Activist & Storyteller

Blessing O. Nwodo is a Toronto-based Creative Writer. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, holds an MFA from the University of Guelph, and has served as Editor of Held Magazine. An alumna of the University of Nigeria, she was honored as Best Female Writer in 2017.

Her work tends to interrogate and mock different forms of societal injustice, and she believes in the transformative power of storytelling to foster mental health and reshape perspectives. Her stories have won the 2016 Nigerian Travel Story, been shortlisted for the 2021 Toyin Fálọlá Prize, the 2021 African Writers Awards, and the 2019 Lost Balloon Pushcart Prize for Speculative Fiction.

When she's not relishing fashion, she can often be found pulverizing the patriarchy. She is working on a collection of speculative fiction, and a novel. You can check out her work on blessingnwodo.com