Healing
Her works delve into life’s complexities, encouraging readers to embrace their whole selves.
About the Author
A Journey
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Rosemary immigrated to the Bronx, New York City, at sixteen. She completed high school at Jane Addams Vocational High School and was a member of the National Honor Society. At Williams College, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a concentration in neuroscience. She subsequently pursued and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree. She now practices medicine under her married name.
Though dedicated to her medical career, Rosemary has rekindled her lifelong passion for storytelling. For her, writing heals the heart, inspires the mind, and soothes the soul. The themes in her writing are GISTH (Gender, Identity, Society, Trauma, and Healing).
Her acclaimed debut novel, The Looming Fog (2006), explores identity formation and self-development in a rural Nigerian village. Her latest work, a hybrid prose-poetry memoir, reflects on pivotal traumas that shaped her resilience and grace.
Rosemary sees herself as a paradoxical chameleon—she’s a devout Christian, feminist, intersex advocate, wellness advocate, survivor, an amateur dancer, and so much more. She believes that embracing one’s whole self, scars and all, is the key to true freedom.
Rosemary Esehagu
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Rosemary Esehagu is a Nigerian-American Writer. She is the author of The Looming Fog, her debut novel. Her poetry has been published both online and in-print. She loves to dance, travel, and explore people’s minds. She lives in Texas.
Rosemary Esehagu
The Looming Fog
The Looming Fog is about life in rural Nigeria as seen through the eyes of an abandoned intersex child. As the child struggles to establish its identity and role in the village, the stories of other villagers and their struggles to fit into, or break free of, their assigned roles are revealed.
The Looming Fog
Published by Oge Creations Book, New York, 2006
The Looming Fog is Rosemary Esehagu’s debut novel skillfully depicting the story of an abandoned child whose life-long difficulties are the cause for a deeply horrific isolation and loneliness. Following the child though the horrors of being [intersex], The Looming Fog gradually eases into the inspiring telling of a life in which solitude is accompanied by others searching to break free of the societal expectations and assigned roles. The Looming Fog is very strongly recommended reading for all who have ever been different from others around, and those who appreciate an intimate story with a remarkable outcome suffused with the bittersweet truths of dreamers everywhere.
My memoir (and poetry book) is coming soon in 2025!
Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming is coming soon!
- Hardships? Brokenness? Traumas?
- Don’t give them the last word.
- That scar they left behind is now your ID badge of courage—indestructibility.
- Maturity
- Character
- Transformation.
- Don’t be shackled but soar—be wild and free, like a butterfly.
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The Beauty of Our Scars
I am one of those people with a tendency to deem a dress ruined or unwearable because it has a microscopic stain on it. It’s not that I think the dress is now ugly but that I am so preoccupied with how perfect and “spotless” it can become without that
The Looming Fog: a Novel about Weakening the Fear Monster.
The Looming Fog: a Novel’s topic of intersex was ahead of its time in 2006, but the world is now more ready to hear its messages. I was a young 20-something year old person when I wrote this book, and I had struggled and remained ambivalent about the ending, specifically
