Jumoke Verissimo was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her first book, I am memory won the AWF/Carlos Idizia Ahmad first book Prize for Poetry 2009, Second Prize, AWF/Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry 2009 and an Honourable Mention in the Association of Nigerian Authors (Poetry) Prize.
She has a Masters in African Studies from the University of Ibadan and a BA Literature-in-English from the Lagos State University. She is a recipient of the Chinua Achebe Centre Fellowship. The Birth of Illusion, her second book, will soon be out.
Epiphanies is published in anticipation of her second collection of poems, The Birth of Illusion , and as the third in Saraba Magazine’s individual poetry chapbook series. It includes thirteen poems, a postscript by Emmanuel Iduma , and photographs by Logor Oluwamuyiwa Adeyemi from the Monochrome Lagos Project.
The People's Daily describes her collection as "a bold stance of pain and other emotions, filtering through the pores of gross indifference and achieving a communal cry of retrospective protest." The Punch also describes her as, "one of those who will change the face of literature in Nigeria", after her first book, which was well received across the country. Her works have appeared in Migrations (Afro-Italian), Wole Soyinka ed.,
Voldposten 2010 (Norway), Livre d'or de Struga (Poetes du monde, sous le patronage de l'UNESCO) and many other print and online magazines. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian, Norwegian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Macedonian.
Beside poetry ,she has worked as an editor, sub-editor, copywriter and a freelance journalist for major newspapers such as Guardian and NEXT. She currently lives in Ibadan.
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