Yomi Adegoke is a multi award-winning journalist and author. She is a columnist at The Guardian, a contributing editor at Elle UK and the former host of the Women's Fiction Prize podcast. In 2023, she released her debut novel The List, which was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller; she is currently writing and executive producing the TV adaptation. In 2018, she co-wrote the bestselling book Slay In Your Lane and the same year was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard. She also was awarded the Groucho Maverick and Marie Clare Future Shaper awards. In 2021, she was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and in 2023 was named a GQ Man of Year honouree.