Nosa Novia is a Lagos-born, Nigerian-British writer and poet, residing in the hills of Devon. She has an MA in Writing with Distinction from the University of Warwick, and is an alumna of several writing development programmes, including the Harper Collins Author Academy and the Breakthrough x Black Ballad mentoring programme.

Her debut historical-fiction novel, Illoi, has been longlisted for the 2025 Discoveries prize and is currently being edited. The novel is set in a precolonial Benin empire and retells the story of the royal succession through the lives of women in the Kings harem. Nosa is also writing Wasteland, a dystopian novel set in a fictional, authoritarian West African nation being used as foreign landfill. Its story focuses on four residents of South Sahel – a military officer, a politician’s daughter, a hawker and a laundromat owner – who secretly work to clean up their city from waste and corruption.

Nosa is the founder of The Reclaim Collective, a social enterprise equipping poets from marginalized backgrounds. She is currently seeking representation.

Nosa was part of the 2024/25 cohort of A Writing Chance, on the Faber strand.