Jumoke Verissimo

Jumoke Verissimo is the author of two poetry collections; I am Memory, and A Birth of Illusion , which was nominated for the 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature. Her latest work, A Small Silence won the Aidoo-Synder Prize (2020) and was also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize in 2020. Grandma and the Moon's Hidden Secret is her first picture book.

Jumoke Verissimo is the author of two poetry collections; I am Memory, and A Birth of Illusion , which was nominated for the 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature. Her latest work, A Small Silence won the Aidoo-Synder Prize (2020) and was also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize in 2020. Grandma and the Moon's Hidden Secret is her first picture book. See less