Pede Hollist

is a Professor of English at The University of Tampa and an award-winning fiction writer who teaches African literature and creative writing. The African Literature Association named 'Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside' the 2023 Best Short Story and So the Path Does Not Die the 2014 Creative Book of the Year. His short story 'Foreign Aid' was shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize.