Frances Ogamba

Frances Ogamba is a Nigerian short story writer.

In 2019, Ogamba's nonfiction piece "The Valley of Memories", exploring the way in which a woman feels a bodily connection with her deceased uncle,[1] won the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

[2] Her short story "Ghana Boy", centring on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother,[3] was also shortlisted for the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize.

[4][5] In 2020, her story "My Husband's Wife" was the English-language winner of the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Prize.

[6] Ogamba lives in Port Harcourt, where she works as a content developer.