Critical Distance DIRECTORY francesca ekwuyasi

francesca ekwuyasi is a learner, artist, and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. Her novel was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the DUBLIN Literary Award. francesca co-wrote Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements (2023), a non-fiction multimedia art book with Roger Mooking. francesca has participated in residencies at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, ARTEXTE, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Centre for Arts Tapes. She has been a writer in residence at Queens University and the University of Winnipeg. francesca’s art, short films, and writing have been shown and screened at Hermes Gallery. Nocturne Halifax, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Black Film Fest, DRIFF, and elsewhere.