Melatu Uche Okorie is an author and member of the Arts Council of Ireland. Okorie's work has been appeared in publications and anthologies. In 2009, her short story "Gathering Thoughts" won the Metro Éireann Writing Award. Her first book, the short story collection "This Hostel Life," was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Irish Book Award, and adapted into an opera by the Irish National Opera. Okorie was born in Nigeria and moved to Ireland in 2006. She received her M. Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin.