Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a

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. She is considered one of

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's best modern poets. She started writing at the age of seven and her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as ''The Stockholm Review of Literature'', ''The Rising Phoenix Review'' and ''The MacGuffin''. Her

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was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". She has a book of poems called ''Questions for Ada'' and her work has been translated into many languages, including Turkish, Portuguese, Russian and French.

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