Diriye Osman is a British-Somali short story writer, visual artist, essayist and critic. He is the first writer of colour to win the Polari First Book Prize for his collection of stories, Fairytales for Lost Children, and was named one of the most influential LGBTQ people in the UK by The Independent on Sunday. His acclaimed collection of interlinked stories, The Butterfly Jungle, was written and designed almost entirely on his phone. Dubbed 'a master of the surreal', Osman's work is studied extensively across the world and has been featured in The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, Vice, Poetry Review, Prospect, Time Out, Attitude, Afropunk, and many other publications.