Yemisi Aribisala is a writer, visual artist and illustrator, best known for her thematic use of food writing to explore Nigerian culture. Her book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex & Nigerian Tastebuds won the 2016 John Avery Prize at the Andre Simon Book Awards. Writings in The New Yorker, Vogue UK, The World of Interiors, Johannesburg Review of Books, Critical Muslim, CNN Travel, Vittles Magazine, and elsewhere. Aribisala is included in the groundbreaking New Daughters of Africa Anthology. Her portraits of Nigerian writers can be viewed at Google Arts & Culture; her illustrations in the writers cooperative Flaming Hydra; and at Scribehound Food.