Abiola Bello

Abiola Bello is a Nigerian-British writer for children and young people, as well as a publisher and advocate for greater representation in books. Emily Knight is the fantasy series she began writing at twelve, led by a Black girl training to become a warrior. The sequence comprises Emily Knight I Am, Emily Knight I Am...Awakened, Emily Knight I Am...Becoming, and Emily Knight I Am...Power. Bello's biography records that the second volume won London's BIG Read in 2019 and received a Carnegie Medal nomination. She later wrote the Wild Magic adventures and the winter romances Love in Winter Wonderland and Only for the Holidays, while also co-founding Hashtag Press, Hashtag BLAK, and the Diverse Book Awards.