Olayinka Yaqub is a Lagos-based Nigerian writer. His short works of fiction have won the Sandra Whiteley's Prize for Children's Literature, the Awele Creative Trust Award, and have also been shortlisted for the Sevhage's K&L Prize for Fiction, the HNM Prize for African Storytelling, amongst others. When he's not writing or researching creative ways to commit murder (in books, of course), he doubles as a chemical engineering undergrad at the University of Lagos.
His debut crime fiction novel featuring two rival detectives on the hunt for a Robin Hood-like serial killer in Lagos was published by Masobe Books in August 2025.