Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Aiwanose Odafen is an MFA fiction student at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She has contributed to published non-fiction works and participated in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Writing Workshop. She was longlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize.
She graduated top of her class with a first-class degree in Accounting and is certified with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom. She holds an MBA from the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Prior to becoming a writer, Aiwanose worked as a consultant across industries, most recently, in the public health sector with an international NGO, helping to save lives.
Tomorrow I Become a Woman, her debut novel, was published by Scribner UK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK, and Ouida Books in 2022. Her second novel, We Were Girls Once, is forthcoming in April 2024