Ola Awonubi was born in North London to Nigerian Parents.  She went to Nigeria as a child and returned in the 90s and has worked in several secretarial roles. At the age of 40 she rekindled her childhood dream of becoming a writer and went back to University to get a MA in Creative Writing.

Her short story The Pink House, won first prize in the 2008 National words of colour competition and another short story of hers The Go- slow Journey, won the first prize in the fiction category for Queen Mary Wasafiri’s New writing prize 2009 and the Best Author CA Awards 2019.

Author of 8 books –  including Love’s Persuasion, Love Me Unconditionally, an anthology of short stories – Naija Love Stories and a contemporary Romance Lovers, Leavers and Keepers.

Her recent Book ‘A Nurses Tale‘ was published by her publishers One More Chapter Books; Harper Collins in July 2023  and in US/Canada in July 2024 and was recently on the Historical fiction bestsellers chat for ‘The Globe and Mail’ in Canada. It was also in the winners circle of the Brown Girl Collective for favourite Historical fiction Book 2024 for last December 2024 in the USA.

Her next Romance – ‘The Marriage Monitoring Auntie’s Association’ is a Rom com about a fifty plus Nigerian woman’s search for love, fulfilment, and faith out in Summer 2025 as part of a 2-book deal and her next book a Jane Austen adaptation set in Lagos is under consideration by publishers and agents.

She is a creative writing tutor and speaker and is set to speak at the Black British Book festival in Manchester in March, the Meet-cute Romance festival and London Festival of Writing, Jericho Writers conferences in June 2025 respectively.