Helen Oyeyemi

writer, student, Cambridge University

Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and has lived in London from the age of four. She completed *The Icarus Girl* just before her nineteenth birthday, while studying for her A-levels. She is now a student of social and political sciences at Cambridge University. She has also written two plays, *Juniper's Whitening* and *Victimese*. She is currently at work on her second.