Author, international speaker and writer, Mary Kelani was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and started writing at a very early age. She graduated from the highly respected Times Journalism Institute (TJI) in Lagos, Nigeria with a Diploma in Journalism. She also received a Diploma in Writing from the Writing School of England.

After Journalism school, She worked briefly as a freelance sportswriter while also writing short stories before she travelled to the United States in 1994. She is currently an undergraduate student at a university in Houston, Texas , where she lives with
her family. No Second Best is her first novel.

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