Bio

Teacher, author, and editor of Kashmiri origin

Mona Zutshi Opubor grew up outside of Boston and is now based in Nigeria, travelling extensively between Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She is a writer, editor, teacher, literary judge, and public speaker whose work explores identity as a foreign-born wife in Nigeria, cross-cultural parenting, and the ties between India, the U.S., and West Africa.

EDUCATION

BA — Columbia University — English Literature

MA — Boston University — Creative Writing; teaching fellow in fiction, playwriting & poetry

MST — University of Oxford — Literature and Arts

FELLOWSHIPS & EDITORIAL ROLES

2012 — Farafina Workshop (now Purple Hibiscus Trust)

2014 — The International Writing Program, University of Iowa

2017–PRESENT — Featured Columnist and former Editor, Lost in Lagos Plus Magazine

TEACHING & COMMUNITY

CERTIFIED — U.S. secondary school English teacher; MYP Language and Literature; IBDP English Literature

FOUNDER — Columbia Club of Nigeria; first Club President; interviewed Nigeria-based applicants to Columbia for several years

She is a citizen of both Nigeria and the USA and an Overseas Citizen of India. A wife and mother of three, she loves to travel, cook, read, and learn.