Gazelle Mba is a Nigerian writer, researcher and editor. She was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Abuja, Nigeria. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Oxford, her MPhil in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Writing from the Royal College of Art. She was awarded the Wade-White Scholarship at Oxford after her first year of undergrad, the Benson-Carslow scholarship at Cambridge, and she won the RCA Writing Prize in 2024. She was twice commended in the Foyles Young Poet Award and won the Lancaster Young Writers Award.
She has read her work at SHOWSTUDIO, the gallery established by famed photographer Nick Knight, and has spoken at the Duke’s Cultural and Economic Summit, a gathering of dignitaries and distinguished speakers discussing how Nigeria’s cultural exports can serve as a force for economic growth.
Her work has been published in esteemed titles such as the London Review of Books, The New Statesman, Literary Review, The World of Interiors, The British Journal of Photography, Frieze, Dazed, Booker Prize Foundation and elsewhere.
She is represented by Elias Altman at MMQA (US) and Matthew Marland at RCW (UK).
She lives in New York.