Anietie Isong grew up in Nigeria. He has a BA in Communication and Language Arts (University of Ibadan) and an MA in Globalization and Communication (University of Leicester). He has worked as a script writer and producer for FRCN. Some of his short stories have been published in Okike, Farafina Online, In Posse Review, Commonwealth Broadcaster, and Spirit of the Commonwealth. He has won a Commonwealth Short Story award and a MUSON Poetry award. He was also the second prize winner in the inaugural Olaudah Equiano Prize for Fiction.