Commonwealth Prize shortlisted author and former diplomat, Ifeoma Chinwuba, was a child refugee during the Biafran Civil War. After the war, she was returned to her family.

Chinwuba acquired an education, thanks to sacrifices by her indigent parents, and was recruited into the Nigerian Foreign Service.

Ifeoma Chinwuba has written several critically acclaimed novels and was the 2022 Writer-in-Residence at the Department of English and Film Studies of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, where she’s hard at work on her next novel.