QURAMO AUTHOR

Chioma Okereke

A Nigerian born poet, author, and short story writer. Her early work was published in Bum Rush, The Page and The Callaloo Literary Journal and was shortlisted for the Undiscovered Authors Competition in 2006, as well as for the Daily Telegraph’s Write a Novel in a Year Competition 2007. This is her debut novel, it was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize - Africa Best First Book 2011. Her short story Trompette De La Mort received first runner up of the inaugural Costa Short Story Award in 2013 and her work was included in the Virago is 40 anthology.She’s a keen traveller and divides her time between the bustle of London, the hustle of Nigeria and the calm of rural France.