Folakemi Emem-Akpan

Folakemi Emem-Akpan lives in Lagos, Nigeria. She has degrees in Economics and Primary Education, used to be a financial journalist, and is now an entrepreneur, but her first love has always been writing and reading.

Her first book, Touch My Pain, was published in 2004. Her short story, The Deceivers, was one of the winning entries in the 2006 edition of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) short story award.

The Deceivers, same as above, was published by Oxford University Press as an adapted version in a collection of short stories in the Oxford Bookworms Library in 2011. The collection is titled Songs from the Soul: Stories from around the world.

Several of her other stories have also won prizes. In 2019, she published three new books – Unravelled, These Issues, and Children of the Light: Short stories for the Christian child.

She cannot function without her laptop and her coffee.

She also blogs at folakemi.wordpress.com