Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie MBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born novelist and short-story writer working in London, England.
[3] Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post, and she is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.
[4] Okojie has received nominations for a number of awards and she has been a judge for other literary competitions.
[10] On 19 May 2020, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing,[11] and was announced as the winner on 27 July 2020 for her story "Grace Jones".
[12][13][14] Okojie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to literature.