Abimbola Alao

Abimbola is a writer, lecturer and researcher. Her research explores the influence of psychosocial intervention for dementia care. Abimbola taught creative writing and storytelling at Plymouth Marjon University from 2007–2018. She is currently a visiting lecturer in Medical Humanities at the Peninsular Medical School, University of Plymouth. Abimbola is an award-winning author, performance storyteller and playwright. Her short play Legal Stuff won the BBC and Royal Court Theatre’s 24 Degrees Writing Competition in 2008. In 2015, Abimbola collaborated with the Alzheimer's Society Plymouth, to run a 12-week project in various memory cafes. This culminated in an anthology, which she compiled, titled 'Narrative Adventures from Plymouth Memory Café'. She is the author of Dear Toriola, Let’s Talk About Perimenopause, The Legendary Weaver: New Edition, Trickster Tales for Telling, The Goshen Principle and How to Enhance your Storytelling With Music. Abimbola is also a children’s book translator, and her work includes Yoruba translations of the classics ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat’, and several other books published by Mantra Lingua. www.abimbolaalao.com