Seamus Okafor is a Nigerian–Irish novelist and former archivist whose work blends bureaucratic realism with unruly folklore. Raised between Enugu and County Clare, he studied manuscript cultures at Trinity College Dublin and public history at the University of Ibadan before cataloguing rare books for the National Library of Ireland and community collections in southeastern Nigeria.
His short fiction has appeared in Omenana, The Stinging Fly, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He is a finalist for the Nommo Award and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award. Previous books include the story collection Dust in the Bellows (2018) and the novella Threadbound Saints (2021).
Seamus Okafor lives in Limerick, where he mentors emerging writers and co-runs a small residency for archivists-turned-artists. When not writing, he maps river-lands on long walks and repairs old fountain pens.
