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Jumoke Verissimo - Nigeria
BIO
Jumoke Verissimo is the
author of I am Memory a collection of poems. Since her first
book was published, she has been a guest poet at the Abuja Writer's
Forum, Lagos Books and Arts Festival (LABAF), Ife Poetry Festival,
and a participating writer in the Nine Writers Four cities tour in
Nigeria. She again recently participated in the Struga Poetry Nights
(2009), in Macedonia. Her poems have been published in several
magazines across the continent. Verissimo is a graduate of
Literature-in-English from the Lagos State University. The Punch,
a widely read Newspaper in Nigeria, describes her as "one of
those who will change the future of literature in Nigeria."
Verissimo works as a copywriter in a leading advertising agency and
a freelance journalist with special interest in literature. She's
presently working on her second book.
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