Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ is an author whose work has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, a Nommo Award, and the Caine Prize for African Literature. Dazzling won the inaugural Curtis Brown First Novel Prize for a work in progress. She was born in Nottinghamshire, England, and raised in Nigeria. She attended two Nigerian boarding schools and Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.