Idris Okafor is a Nigerian-British science fiction author and former hydrologist whose work explores extraction economies, faith, and the physics of scarcity. Born in Enugu in 1986, he studied geology at the University of Ibadan and completed a master's in hydrology at Imperial College London before consulting on irrigation models across the Sahel. His fiction has appeared in Omenana and Brittle Paper, and he was shortlisted for the Nommo Award for his debut novella, Desert Choirs (2019). He is also the author of the near-future climate thriller The Gravity of Salt (2022).
Idris Okafor has taught environmental storytelling workshops in Lagos and Accra, and mentors emerging writers through the African Speculative Fiction Society. He lives between Calabar and London, collecting river maps, obsolete sensors, and stories from dockworkers. When not writing, he volunteers with community borehole projects and annotates satellite rainfall data for artists.
