Author: Victoria Ifeolu

Victoria Ifeolu is the Author of two novels, a poetry collection, a short story collection, a collection of prose-poems and a novella. The most prominent of them all is the mainstream poetry collection titled I Call My Sexuality My God: My Shampoo and My Watermelon Juice, which made its way to The New York Times, The Kenya Today, and The Reader”s House, London. Her literary awards include the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute Essay Prize, the Mazariya Prize for Poetry, and the Jason Pinter Black Writer Scholarship. In 2019, she was shortlisted thrice for the Ad Hoc Fiction Prize. Her stand-alone poems have been published in widely-read anthologies, including The Tracery of Trees by the Poetry Institute of Canada, and Where The Mind Dwells by Eber & Wein, PA. Shortly before completing the Thriller MBA in affiliation with the International Thriller Writers (ITW), she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (Literature) from the American University of Nigeria. Born in 1998, she identifies as a pro-Beauvoir literary scholar, who enjoys inventing her own theories.