Toyin Taiwo

Toyin Taiwo is a writer, theatre and film director, qualified English and Drama teacher, and CELTA-certified educator with over a decade of experience teaching English, Drama and creative writing in the UK and internationally. She is the author of Dear Diary: The Truth Behind the Mask, published by Kingston University Press in 2026. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize and longlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize and the Guardian 4thWrite Prize. Her screenwriting was also a finalist in the Dubai International Cineverse Screenplay Awards. Toyin’s theatre work has been presented at Lagos Fringe Festival and Alliance Française de Lagos, and a filmed stage production she wrote and directed is licensed for worldwide academic streaming through Alexander Street, part of Clarivate.