Yewande Omotoso studied architecture and received a masters in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel Bomboy (2011 Modjaji Books), won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Her short stories include How About The Children (Kalahari Review), Things Are Hard (2012 Caine Prize Anthology), Fish (The Moth Literary Journal) and The Leftovers (One World Two).
Yewande was a 2015 Miles Morland Scholar. Her second novel The Woman Next Door (2016 Chatto and Windus) was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and The Barry Ronge fiction Prize and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Literature Prize. Her third novel An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic) was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Republic of consciousness Award and shortlisted for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.