M i r a O k

A writer who

unravels

worlds

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I write fiction
to tell truths

Lagos. London. The spaces between. My stories live in the contradictions — where tradition collides with tomorrow, where silence speaks louder than words, where home is a question, not a place.

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The Books

The Weight of Belonging

The Weight of Belonging

Novel — 2018

Three siblings return to Lagos for their father's funeral, each carrying secrets that will reshape their understanding of family, duty, and freedom.

Minor Seasons

Minor Seasons

Stories — 2022

Eleven stories spanning continents, connected by invisible threads of longing, displacement, and the small violences of everyday life.

What the River Knows

What the River Knows

Novel — 2025

A debut exploring memory, myth, and a woman's journey to uncover her grandmother's buried history in the Niger Delta.

2026

How stories
find their way
through me

I don't write every day. I refuse the productivity gospel. Some weeks I fill notebooks. Some months I just listen — to my aunt's voice on WhatsApp, to the market women arguing about tomato prices, to the silence of 3am when the city finally breathes.

A novel takes me four years. A story, sometimes longer. I've abandoned more than I've published. This is not romantic. It's just the work.

I write in fragments first. Scenes arrive out of order, like photographs scattered from an album. The structure reveals itself last, always when I've almost given up.

The question I return to: What does it mean to belong to a place that doesn't belong to you? I have no answer. Only more questions, shaped into story.

For rights, press, or the rare speaking engagement where I might actually have something useful to say—

Literary

Amara Diallo

The Wylie Agency

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I read everything. Eventually.