About Me

Onyinye Iwu is an award winning children’s book illustrator and author based in London.

She was born in Italy to Nigerian parents and moved to the UK as a teenager. She has a first degree in Architecture, a Postgraduate Education Certificate in Secondary Design Technology and a Masters degree in Culture Diaspora Ethnicity.

Onyinye works as a secondary design and art teacher in Inner London.

Onyinye has been published with:

• Walker Books

• Candlewick Press,

• Penguin Random House

• Scholastic

• Otter-Barry Books

• Interlink Books

• Knights Of

Onyinye collaborated with different organisations such as:

• CLPE

• Booktrust

• Open University

• UK Parliament

• Amazon UK

In 2021 Onyinye, along with other illustrators won the UK National Book Award in the category of Children’s book for Hey You!

Onyinye has illustrated books by award winning authors such as:

• Benjamin Zephaniah

• Laura Henry-Allain

• Atinuke

• Nnedi Okorafor

• Atinuke

Onyinye is now debuting as an author-illustrator with a new book “The Best Jollof Rice Ever” published by Otterbarry books on the 5th of June 2025 in the UK (In the US it is published by Interlink Press on the 15th July)