Cheryl S Ntumy

Cheryl S.
Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of speculative fiction, young adult
fiction, and romance. Her
work has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine; Apex
Magazine; World Literature
oday;
Best of World SF Vol. 3 and Year's Best African
Speculative Fiction 2022, among others.
Her work has also been nominated for the Nommo Award for African Speculative
Fiction, the British Science Fiction Association Award,
the Commonwealth Writers Short
Story Prize and the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship.
She is part of the Sauútiverse
Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric
speculative fiction, and a member of
Petlo Literary Arts, an organisation that develops and promotes
creative writing in
Botswana. Her Sauútiverse novella Songs for the Shadows
was released in 2024 by Atthis Arts and her short story collection Black Friday: Short
Stories from Africa (Beyond and Within) was published in
April 2025 by Flame Tree Press.