Ify Tony-Monye is a former Systems Analyst and a Quality Improvement & Disease Surveillance Advisor based in Abuja. She started writing short stories as a hobby since early childhood. She obtained her B.Sc. from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and then had a brief banking career before obtaining her M.Sc. from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. After achieving the target she had set for herself academically, she relocated to Nigeria and then decided to go back to her first love –writing. She is author of What Goes Around, her first fiction and two short stories “A Gift from the Gods” and “The Awakening”.