Temi Oh

Temi Oh (birth name Temitoyen Ochugboju ) is a British science fiction author, screenwriter, and neuroscientist. Her debut novel, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?, received the 2020 Alex Award. Her second novel, More Perfect, was published in 2023.

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Oh attended university at King's College London, where she studied neuroscience and graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree. She subsequently earned an MA from the University of Edinburgh. She married her husband Benedict Douglas-Scott and had a daughter in 2022. Temi Oh has also endorsed the use of the Freedom app as a way to increase productivity in an increasingly connected world.

Her debut novel Do You Dream of Terra-Two? was published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster and was featured in The Guardian's "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Roundup". It was a preliminary nominee for the 2020 Nommo Award and received the American Library Association's 2020 Alex Award. As of 2019, no sequel was planned for the book .

More Perfect, Oh's second novel, published in 2023, is a "dystopian hypersurveillance" tale based on the classic Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice. It took a bit less than eight years to go from her initial idea for the book to publication.

She has also authored tie-in short fiction connected to Black Panther, Doctor Who and Overwatch 2.

Oh's third and fourth novels are scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster UK and Saga Press. The first of these is set to be published in 2026 and is billed as "a family drama set at the end of the world".