Dayo Forster

Dayo was born in Gambia and now lives in Kenya. She has published a short story in Kwani?, Kenya’s literary magazine, and was one of twelve African writers selected as a participant for the 2006 Caine Prize Writer’s Workshop. The story produced as a result of the ten-day workshop will be published in a Caine Prize anthology in July 2006.

Dayo’s first novel Reading The Ceiling was published by Simon & Schuster (UK) in May 2007, and was widely praised by the British literary press.

Read an excerpt of Reading The Ceiling

www.dayoforster.com