📝 About Ms. Aduke Gomez

Ms. Aduke Gomez is a poet and author of children’s stories. Her published collection of poems was featured as a festival book for both the LABAF (2017) and the Ake Festival (2017). Her children's book Lost and Found in Lagos – a collaboration with Biola Alabi Media – was selected as one of Channels TV Book Club Top Twenty Books for 2019.

Her recent poetry collection Attending My Own Wake & Other Episodes was featured at the 2021 Goethe Institute Nigeria Digital Conference on Mental Health and Art Therapy. Her newest children's picture book, The Silver Magic Cooking Pot, was featured at the 2022 edition of LABAF and is also a ZODML 2023 Book Talk selection.

Ms. Gomez served as a judge in our inaugural poetry contest.