Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia as well as a first-class degree in Mathematics, and is a recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship.
He was awarded second place in the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, and is currently studying for a fully funded PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa is his first novel.