Adrian Igonibo Barrett (born March 26, 1979) is a Nigerian writer. He was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria to a Nigerian mother and the Jamaican novelist and poet, Lindsay Barrett.
Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005.[1] His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth,[2] was first published in 2005 and reissued in 2008.
In 2006 he co-founded the online literary journal Blackbiro. In 2007 he joined the editorial team of Farafina Magazine, where he was managing editor until 2009. He was the founding organizer of the BookJam reading series[3] in Lagos, Nigeria, which featured the writers Jude Dibia, Michela Wrong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Helon Habila and Tsitsi Dangarembga, among others. In 2010 he was awarded a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship.