Adiela Akoo, a recipient of the prestigious Dux Award, is a South African poet, author, and all round creative, with a background in banking and comprehensive healing.

She has served in various positions including as Provincial Coordinator for an International holistic healing association. But her passion has always been towards her creative side. She attributes the inculcation of her love for the written word to her mother, who encouraged her at an early age.

Her poems and essays first appeared in print in the quarterly literary journal, The Moving Finger. She has since been published in a variety of magazines, journals and anthologies across the world, including Fidelities, Different Horizons, Sincerely Yours, Emotional Journey's', Renaissance, Sufi, Nature 2018-2019, Grey Thoughts, 25 Years of Freedom, Tales for Love, Best of Africa, Universul Culturii, Best Emerging Poets of 2019, The Penmen Review, Songs of Peace, Our Poetry Archive, I Wish I'd Said Vol 3, International Literary and Art Review (ILA Magazine), and others.
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She won the Poetry in my Mind August 2019 Poem Contest with her poem "As You Perceive", which was subsequently translated into Bangla and Turkish by fellow poets. "Redolent" was a runner up in a contest by Rui M Publishing. "Pre Natal" was nominated Poem of the Day on the popular poetry site PoemHunter and "A Scent on a Breeze" was picked up for publishing by Nightingale & Sparrow. "VIRUS" won the Poetry in my Mind April 2020 Poem Contest.

She was honoured to have her poem "Whiplash", from her book Lost in a Quatrain, quoted in The South African House of Parliament. Adiela is also a recipient of The Silver Star Award from the Global Literary Society for excellent contribution to world literature.

Lost in a Quatrain is her soul stirring debut collection with each poem telling a story that pieces together the puzzle of this crazy, not always romantic, experience we call life...