Dorcas Akobundu

Dorcas Akobundu is a pharmacy undergraduate by day and a writer of fiction, poems and rants in-between by night. She's driven by her passion to communicate with people who long for a connection through stories, and the need to create awareness about various forms of mental health disorders—both in the young and old—in Nigeria. She was the 2nd runner-up of the Phoenix Quill Writing Contest, 2020 and was longlisted for the Awele Creative Trust Award, 2020, amongst other accolades. Her debut novella, In Red Mud, will be available in paperback June, 2021. She writes from Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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