Iman Verjee is a Kenyan author who has written two books and is currently based in Edmonton, Canada.
[1] Verjee was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and lived there until she was 18 before moving to Canada and England.
[2] Verjee's first novel, In Between Dreams, addresses themes of child sexual abuse and was published in May 2014 by Oneworld Publications.
[3] Speaking to Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation in 2014, Verjee said she focused on the topic of sexual abuse because "it’s a terrible thing to have to happen to anyone and it’s imperative that society deals with it".
[6] Verjee is the winner of the 2012 Peters Fraser & Dunlop/City University Prize for Fiction for her novel In Between Dreams.