Chioma Okereke

Writer

Chioma Okereke was born in Benin City, Nigeria. She started her writing career as a poet and performed throughout Europe and the United States before turning her hand to fiction. Her work has been shortlisted in the Undiscovered Authors Competition 2006, run by Bookforce UK, and in the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Write a Novel in a Year’ Competition in 2007. Water Baby is her second novel.