I'm Ogonna Juliet Nnamani, the second child of my parents, a wife and a mother of 3. At an early stage, my siblings and I were forced to read story books because of  our mother’s love for novels and our father’s proclivity for education. “Reading storybooks will help you build your vocabulary”, my father would often say. I tried to finish all storybooks purchased by my father each holiday just to gain his approval.

At age 8, I began expressing my sad and uncomfortable feelings as poems, poems no one in my family was ready to read. My father termed it an “unforgiving spirit” for a child to express hurtful things in poems rather than simply forgetting them. During my secondary school days, I would secretly take my mother’s romance novels to read and soon developed a penchant for romance novels. For me, life is about love and reading love stories provides the necessary escape from the harsh realities of life. When inspired, I would pen down my thoughts and emotions and I have since written a number of short stories and poems.