Wayétu Moore

is the author of the novel She Would Be King, and the memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction and the 2022 William Saroyan Prize for Nonfiction. The Italian translation of her memoir, I Draghi, Il Gigante, Le Donne, was awarded the inaugural Inge Feltrenelli Literary Prize in 2023.