Helen Oyeyemi (born 10 Dec 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Since 2014 her home has been in Prague. Her novel White Is for Witching was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. In 2013 she was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. Boy, Snow, Bird was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2014.What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours won the PEN Open Book Award. In 2007 Bloomsbury published Oyeyemi's novel, The Opposite House, which is inspired by Cuban mythology. Oyeyemi's latest work, a novel titled Gingerbread, was published 5 March 2019. Less