Kenechi Udogu is a Nigerian-born London-based writer and architect whose work centres on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres that stand strong in challenging conditions.
Her YA novel, Augmented, was the inaugural winner of Faber Children’s Imagined Futures Prize and was published in 2025. It was featured in The Guardian and The Scotsman and was selected as The Times Children’s Book of the Week. Augmented won the Two Cities Book Award and the People’s Book Prize Children’s Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and Jhalak Children’s and YA Prize, as well as other literary awards. It has also been included on the American Library Association’s Core 2026 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Hal Clement Notable Young Adult Books List.
Kenechi was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her sci-fi short story was published in an issue of Dark Matter Magazine, and another was a finalist in Grist’s Imagine 2200 climate-fiction contest. She loves singing with choirs, and hopes to one day figure out how to hibernate in winter.
