About Yomi

Yomi Adegoke is a multi-award winning journalist, broadcaster and internationally bestselling author.

Yomi writes about race, feminism, popular culture and how they intersect, as well as class and politics. She is currently a columnist at the Guardian and a contributing editor Elle.

Slay In Your Lane was shortlisted for both British and National Book Awards. It was followed by a companion journal and the Loud Black Girls anthology in 2020, as well as a children's book The Offline Diaries.

In 2021, Yomi was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and outlined as a 'featured nominee'.

Her debut novel, The List, was released in 2023 and was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller in both hardback and paperback, as well as nominated for the British Book Awards. It was also Good Morning America's book club pick for October 2023 and saw Yomi profiled in the New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue and more.

She was announced as a GQ Man of the year honouree and is currently writing and executive producing the TV adaptation of her novel with A24, HBO and BBC. It has been published in 8 languages. Her writing has featured in various other books such as Helen Russell's How To Be Sad, Scarlett Curtis' Its Not Ok To Feel Blue (and other lies), the Comfort Zones anthology in aid of Women for Women International, This Is How We Come Back Stronger edited by the Feminist Book Society and the anthology of Nigerian writers Of This Our Country.

As a journalist, she has featured in The Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, Elle UK and others. She has written a number of high profile cover stories, speaking to Dua Lipa and Jourdan Dunn for the British Vogue cover, Naomi Campbell and Issa Rae for the Observer and Margaret Atwood for the Stylist. She has been shortlisted for Best Commentary at the Online Media Awards and four awards at the Comment Awards. In 2021, she was nominated for two British Journalism awards in the Comment and Best Interviewer category.

Over the past few years, she has become one of the country's leading voices on race, feminism and pop culture, and she is well-known for her music journalism, presenting the 'Where are the black women in Grime?' documentary on BBC Radio 4 in 2019 and producing the popular 'The Lost Stars of Channel U' documentary at ITN.

Yomi is an ambassador for the gynae cancer charity Eve Appeal and trustee for award-winning mentoring charity and support network Arts Emergency.