[4][5] Born in Ilase-Ijesa, Osun State, Nigeria,[6] Molara Wood has lived what she describes as "a fairly nomadic life", encompassing two decades in Britain, where she had initially gone to study ("Three or four years max, was the plan.
[7] In a 2015 interview with Oyebade Dosunmu for Aké Review, Wood elaborated: "Even long before my UK days, I had lived in Northern and South-Western Nigeria as well as Los Angeles—all by the age of eleven or twelve.
[13] As Oyebade Dosunmu writes: "Wood tells stories of people who inhabit in between ‘indigo’ spaces: the borderland of immigration, the no-man's-land of multiculturalism and the frontiers of social mobility.
These worlds cycle into one another and their inhabitants spin along, negotiating extremes of human circumstance—barrenness, the (fated) pursuit of glamour, madness, death—struggling, all the while, to plant roots in shifting sand.
"[2] Many of the stories dealt with the lives of African women negotiating concerns such as barrenness, polygamy and widowhood.
[15] In 2022, she was appointed a writer-in-residence by the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD), based in Accra, Ghana.