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Nuzo Onoh
Nuzo Onoh is a British writer of African-Igbo heritage. Popularly known as, “The Queen of African Horror”, Nuzo holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, Warwickshire.
Nuzo has been championing African Horror and has featured on multiple media platforms promoting this unique horror genre. She is the first African Horror writer to have featured on Starburst Magazine, the world's longest-running magazine of cult entertainment and science fiction. She has also made the front-cover of Paranormal Underground Magazine and features in the reference book, “80 Black Women in Horror” (2014). Her writing has also featured in multiple anthologies, including her recent contest-winning and Lovecraft-inspired African Cosmic horror story, Guardians, featured in the Asterisk Anthology Volume 2 (2018). Nuzo 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. A keen musician, Nuzo plays both the piano and guitar and has her own self-publishing company, Canaan-Star publishing. Her book, The Reluctant Dead (2014), introduced modern African Horror into the mainstream Horror genre. Her other books include Unhallowed Graves (2015) The Sleepless (2016) and Dead Corpse (2017). Nuzo lives in Coventry and is a member of the Coventry Writing Group.
Biographic Note
Nuzo Onoh is a British writer of African-Igbo heritage. Popularly known as, “The Queen of African Horror”, Nuzo holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, Warwickshire.
Nuzo has been championing African Horror and has featured on multiple media platforms promoting this unique horror genre. She is the first African Horror writer to have featured on Starburst Magazine, the world's longest-running magazine of cult entertainment and science fiction. She has also made the front-cover of Paranormal Underground Magazine and features in the reference book, “80 Black Women in Horror” (2014). Her writing has also featured in multiple anthologies, including her recent contest-winning and Lovecraft-inspired African Cosmic horror story, Guardians, featured in the Asterisk Anthology Volume 2 (2018). Nuzo 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. A keen musician, Nuzo plays both the piano and guitar and has her own self-publishing company, Canaan-Star publishing. Her book, The Reluctant Dead (2014), introduced modern African Horror into the mainstream Horror genre. Her other books include Unhallowed Graves (2015) The Sleepless (2016) and Dead Corpse (2017). Nuzo lives in Coventry and is a member of the Coventry Writing Group.
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University (NYU) and he is Senior Lecturer at Universidad Carlos III from Madrid. He has published in New Media & Society, Studies in European Cinema, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies or Television and New Media, among others. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Spanish Cinema & Genre (2009) and has written over twenty book chapters in a variety of edited volumes. He is the editor of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays and member of the Research Group Tecmerin.
Biographic Note
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University (NYU) and he is Senior Lecturer at Universidad Carlos III from Madrid. He has published in New Media & Society, Studies in European Cinema, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies or Television and New Media, among others. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Spanish Cinema & Genre (2009) and has written over twenty book chapters in a variety of edited volumes. He is the editor of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays and member of the Research Group Tecmerin.
