Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone-born writer and essayist and the author of Wilderness of Mirrors (2025). His short fiction has been published in Guernica magazine, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story and translated into French and German. His nonfiction essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Africa is a Country, and The Guardian.
He has been the International Writer-in-Residence at Cove Park, Scotland and a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University's Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice in Washington, DC. In 2019, he received a Washington DC Arts & Humanities Grant.
A former juror of the Miles Morland Scholarship and the AKO Caine Prize for African writing, he is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize for 'Stickfighting Days.' He lives in Germany and Côte d'Ivoire.