Fiyola Hoosen-Steele
Fiyola Hoosen-Steele is a former South African diplomat to the United Nations (UN) and former UN Representative for Plan International, Independent Diplomat, and Save the Children. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree, a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations. She honed her writing craft at Gotham Writers Workshop and taught The Writer’s Manifestation Project at Art of Alignment Academy. Her works of fiction and non-fiction have been published in the Bosphorus Review, Flash Magazine and AFREADA Magazine. She was also a finalist for the 2022 Ruminate Flash Prose Prize. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.