Yewande Omotoso, born in Barbados, grew up in Nigeria and currently lives in Johannesburg.

Yewande, a trained architect, completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel ‘Bomboy’, published in 2011 by Modjaji Books, was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Literary Awards and the MNet Film Award, it won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Other works include ‘Heroes’ with online crime fiction magazine ‘Noir Nation’ and ‘Two Old People’ in the anthology ‘Speaking for the Generation: Contemporary Stories from Africa’. Yewande’s poetry is published in the Baobab Literary Journal. ‘The Rain’ was shortlisted for the 2012 Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Awards.