Umar Turaki is a writer from Jos, Nigeria. His writing has been shortlisted for the Miles Morland Scholarship, longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize, and has won the AFREADA Photo-Story Competition. Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold (Little A/world; Farafina/Nigeria) is his first novel.

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He lives in Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife and daughter, where he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus).