Somi Ekhasomhi is a poet, playwright, and author of the award-winning autobiography 'Boy Without Legs'. Born in London to African parents, he spent most of his childhood in Uganda, where he was a teacher and a minister. In 2008, Somi's book Boy Without Legs was published by Serpent's Tail. It has been short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and was one of the "Books of the Year" in The Times Literary Supplement
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His second book Woman Without a Head was published in 2010. He is also the author of two collections of poetry: Building Flesh (2002) and The Spine (2011). In 2013 he began writing a play about the life and death of his late wife Caroline Ekhasomhi who died from cancer.
He is currently at work on a new play about childhood sexual abuse.