AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Nuzo Onoh
The Asterisk Anthology: Volume 2
“GUARDIANS”
Nuzo Onoh is a British writer of African-Igbo heritage. Popularly known as, “The Queen of African Horror”, Nuzo was born in Enugu, in the Eastern part of Nigeria (formerly, The Republic of Biafra). She first came to England as a teenager and attended The Mount School, York, (a Quaker boarding school) and St Andrew’s Tutorial College, Cambridge, from where she obtained her A’levels. She holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, Warwickshire.
Nuzo has been championing the alternative horror genre, African Horror, and has featured on multiple media platforms promoting this unique horror genre. She is the first African Horror writer to feature on Starburst Magazine, the world’s longest-running magazine of cult entertainment. She has also made the front-cover of Paranormal Underground Magazine. Nuzo is included in the reference book, “80 Black Women in Horror” and her writing has also featured in multiple anthologies. She has written several blogs for Female First Magazine about African Horror and has been mentioned as one of the new voices in British horror writing making a positive impact on how black and minority races are portrayed in mainstream horror fiction. Nuzo has also given talks at several events about African Horror, including the Warwick University Law Society.
A keen musician, Nuzo plays both the piano and guitar and enjoys writing songs when not haunting church graveyards and the beautiful Coventry War Memorial Park. Her book, The Reluctant Dead (2014), introduced modern African Horror into the mainstream Horror genre. Nuzo has two daughters and her cat, Tinkerbell. She lives in Coventry and is an active member of the Coventry Writers Group.
I’ve read almost all of Nuzo’s books; they’re well written and very scary. She’s also just a really sweet lady.