Jumoke Verissimo

Jumoke Verissimo writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She has published two collections of poetry; I am memory won the Carlos Idzia Ahmad Prize's First Prize for a first book of Poetry, and The Birth of Illusion was shortlisted for the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize and longlisted for the NLNG Prize. She has also published a chapbook with Saraba Magazine, titled Epiphanies (2015). Her poetry has been translated into French, Chinese, Japanese, Macedonian and Norwegian. Jumoke is currently [2020] enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. A Small Silence was her debut novel.