Ormena Ukpu

Ormena Ukpu autonomously started writing stories in second grade at McNeill Elementary School. In third grade, at 9 years old, he started a book club called Robooks. He got 13 pupils to join the club to write books. They wrote several incoherent manuscripts with title such as “Prison Life”, “Jet Wars,” and “New Football Legends”.

After the Spring break in 2016, one day, Ormena came from school looking sad. He told his father that he’s unhappy because everyone in his book club quit. He said they were no longer interested in writing since they were not being paid. His father encouraged him to keep writing. While he was working on Way of the Creed, behold three of his friends at school got interested again in working with him shortly before their break for the summer. He finished Way of the Creed in the summer of 2016.

Currently, Ormena is a 4th grader. He is working on the second series of Way of the Creed.