Erica Sugo Anyadike began her career in the film industry as a screenwriter in South Africa and has worked in various capacities in the television sector. In 2019, her short story ‘How to Marry an African President’ was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and for the Queen Mary Wasafiri Writing Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. Erica is working on her debut novel, All the Real Girls.