Sefi Atta (born 19 January 1964) is a Nigerian-American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter.

[7] Atta graduated from the creative writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

[9] She has also written essays,[10] and her articles on Lagos and Nigeria have appeared in publications such as Time and Libération.

Her first novel, Everything Good Will Come, won the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2006.

A critical study of her works, Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition, edited by Professor Walter P. Collins, III, was published by Cambria Press in 2015.