Chol-wdwuok is an author born in Jonglei State, South Sudan. As a boy, he moved Kenya to pursue education, where he attended the Kakuma Refugee Schools and later earned a Jesuit Refugee Scholarship to the Katilu Boys Secondary School.

After his high school studies, he then applied to and was accepted into the World University Services of Canada scholarship and attended the UBC, where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics.

He is also the author of Angels in Swollen Crises: Stepmother & Of Rags and Grades: Struggle.

He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he works and writes.