Onjali Q. Raúf is the founder of both O's Refugee Aid Team (which works to deliver emergency aid to refugees in northern France and other parts of Europe) and Making Herstory (which mobilises men, women and children from all walks of life to tackle the abuse and trafficking of women and girls in the UK and beyond).
Her first novel, The Boy at the Back of the Class, won the Waterstone's Children's Prize and The Blue Peter Book Award. Her second novel, The Star Outside My Window, was published in October 2019. To help celebrate World Book Day 2020, a follow up to The Boy at the Back of the Class was released called The Day We Met the Queen.