Mona Zutshi Opubor is a teacher, author and editor of Kashmiri origin who grew up outside of Boston. Mona received her BA in English Literature from Columbia University, her MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was a teaching fellow specialising in fiction writing, playwriting and poetry, and her MSt in Literature and Arts at the University of Oxford. Based in Nigeria, she travels extensively between Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Mona has received numerous writing fellowships including the Farafina Workshop (now Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop) and the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in magazines and literary journals, both in print and online. She was the Editor and Featured Columnist of the monthly Lost in Lagos Magazine and the quarterly Lost in Abuja Magazine, and she is currently the Featured Columnist of the monthly Lost in Lagos Plus Magazine.

Mona is a U.S.-certified secondary school English teacher and a certified International Baccalaureate English instructor, with experience teaching middle school, high school and university students various subjects, including English, Social Studies and Creative Writing.

Mona founded the Columbia Club of Nigeria and served as its first Club President. She has interviewed Nigeria-based high school seniors applying to Columbia University’s College and Engineering schools for several years.

She is a citizen of both Nigeria and the USA and an Overseas Citizen of India, conversant in English, French, Hindi-Urdu and Ancient Greek. A wife and mother of three, she loves to travel, cook, read and learn.