Amatesiro Dore studied law at the Igbinedion University Okada and the Nigerian Law School. He was awarded the Reimagined Folktale Contest, the Saraba Manuscript (Nonfiction) Prize and was shortlisted for the 2017 Gerald Kraak Award. He’s also an alumnus of the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop, Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency and Project Consultant and Co-Initiator of the Connecting the Dots Conference Sponsored by TIDES Foundation. His nonfiction, How I Became, was recently published in the Religion Issue 125 of Transition magazine.