📝 About Ms. Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba

Ms. Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba is an award-winning playwright. Her play Daughters of the East made her the first female winner of the Beeta Prize for Playwriting in 2020. Her other play, The Women in the Mirror, was a ZODML Book Talk selection.

Her debut novel, Mmirinzo, the ones who are rain, was the first runner-up for the 2021 Spring Prize for Women Authors. She has also won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Drama, and the Quramo Prize for Fiction.

She was one of the six playwrights chosen to participate in the 2021 Playwrights Lab organized by the National Theatre of Wales, in conjunction with the Lagos Theatre Festival and the British Council. She is also the author of a children’s book titled The Penguin Club.

Ms. Ilozumba served as a judge in our inaugural poetry contest in 2023.