Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories.

[2][5][6] While she was in college, Oyeyemi's plays Juniper's Whitening and Victimese were performed by fellow students and later published by Methuen in 2014.

[12] Her fourth novel, Mr Fox, was published by Picador in June 2011,[13] In 2013 she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.

[18][19] What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours won the 2016 PEN Open Book Award: for an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of colour.

[31] Oyeyemi was a judge for the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize, along with Tom Lee (chair), Maddie Mortimer and Ellen Peirson-Hagger.