Masquerade Season: A Tor.com Original

by 'Pemi Aguda

Overview

From Nigerian author Pemi Aguda comes "Masquerade Season," a Tor.com Original short story

Pauly is a good son. When he brings home three beautiful Masquerades, he's expecting that his mother will be proud of him. But when his mother begins asking favors of his Masquerades, he realizes that being a good son sometimes means disobeying.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250830142
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/24/2021
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

'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 awards such as: a Henfield Prize, a Tyson Prize for Fiction, Hopwood Awards (for Novel, Short Fiction, Non-Fiction and Drama), and the 2015 Writivism Prize. She received a work-study scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2018, an Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship from the Carl Brandon Society to attend the Clarion Workshop in 2019, as well as a 2019 Juniper Summer Workshop scholarship. She was a finalist for the 2020 US National Magazine Award in Fiction. She is a 2020 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, and her novel manuscript won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award.

’Pemi is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. She is represented by Renée Zuckerbrot of MMQ Lit.

’Pemi Aguda has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. Her stories have appeared in Granta, American Short Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and Zoetrope: All-Story among others. She is from Lagos, Nigeria.