TJ Benson is a writer and visual artist who explores the body in the context of memory, migration, utopia and the unconscious self. His work has been exhibited and published in several journals and shortlisted for awards, winning the Amab-hbf prize and being placed as first runner-up for the Short Story Day Africa prize. His well-received short story collection We Won't Fade into Darkness was published in 2018. He currently lives in an apartment full of plants in Kaduna, Nigeria, and is on the verge of becoming a cat person.
