Safiya Ismaila Yero is from Jimeta in Adamawa State, Nigeria. She has
B.A. and M.A. degrees in English and Literature from the University of
Abuja, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the Nigerian
Teachers’ Institute (NTI). She taught in a secondary school before
joining the University of Abuja. Her debut novel, When There is Life,
was published in 2013. She is currently a PhD student focusing on
emergent trends in contemporary northern Nigerian fiction. Safiya is
also a poet, book reviewer and editor and has written several scholarly
articles. She is married and has two children.
