Tahnia Barrie is a Sierra Leonean poet and writer, currently based in her country’s capital city, Freetown. She is a 2024 Voodoonauts fellow, an alum of the 2023 WAW residency at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, and an Associate Editor at PodCastle magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Commonwealth Foundation’s literary magazine adda, Strange Horizons, Lolwe, Fantasy Magazine, 20.35 Africa’s Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and elsewhere.