John Okafor is a Nigerian-born thriller writer whose work fuses medical detail with noir urgency. Raised in Aba and later Enugu, he studied physiology at the University of Nigeria before spending five years as an EMT and surgical ward clerk—roles that lend his fiction its granular feel for triage and aftermath. He completed a postgraduate degree in creative writing in Leeds and received the New Voices Africa Fellowship for emerging authors.
Okafor's earlier novels, Cold Ward and Night Ambulance, earned the Lagos Noir Prize and a longlisting for the Kite Dagger. His short fiction has appeared in the independent magazines Black Star Review and Ukpor Quarterly. He lives in Manchester, volunteers with a community first-responder unit, and, when not writing, restores vintage dictaphones and hikes the Peak District.
