Olivia Kidula is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Will This Be A Problem? Kenya’s first SFF literary magazine. She is also the publisher and editorial director of Shilitza Publishing Group, an independent press based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story, “Mummy Dearest “, appeared in Digital Bedbugs: 2019 Anthology of the Nairobi Fiction Workshop. With a decade of experience in print media and speculative fiction publishing, her proficiency in fiction and nonfiction is evidenced by a portfolio that includes novellas, short stories, and magazine features.
Somto Ihezue is a Nigerian–Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is a graduate student of the University of Maryland’s MFA in Fiction Writing Program. He is a recipient of the Mandela Institute’s African Network Movement Fiction Prize, the Horror Writers Association Grant, & the EbonyLife Academy Alumni Film Grant. His work was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds) for Best New Writer, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, the Utopia Awards, and has equally been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Nommo Awards. His works have appeared and are forthcoming in Tor: Africa Risen Anthology, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Cossmass Infinities, Flash Fiction Online, NIGHTMARE, Flame Tree Press, OnSpec Magazine, Africa In Dialogue, Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, The Year’s Best Anthology of African Speculative Fiction and others.
Amadin Ogbewe is a Nigerian writer and journalist from the ancient city of Benin. He is part of the Shilitza editorial team. His work has appeared in Fireside Fiction Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Omenana, and others. The short horror film Jacob’s Crib is an adaptation of one of his stories of the same name. When he’s not analysing or reporting on politics and education, he’s voraciously consuming all manner of speculative fiction or rewatching old sitcoms.