Cairo Aibangbee

Cairo is a poet, award-winning playwright and the founder of Black Girls Brunch. Her debut play Who’s Looking Back at You? won the Toast of Fringe Award.

Her first poetry collection, Sunshine and Raindrops, saw her listed by The Voice Newspaper as one of ten unsung ‘phenomenal Black British authors’. In the past Cairo has performed her poetry at The Bush Theatre, Port Eliot Literary Festival, and opened for the acclaimed poet Dr John Cooper Clarke at Latitude Festival.

When not writing, she can be found waxing lyrical about her favourite books on her TikTok (@cairoaibangbee), where she has over 28.6k followers and 2.4m likes.

Cairo is currently working on her debut novel, an enemies-to-lovers romantasy combining Greek and Nigerian folklore.