AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA
Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93, Lagos) is a lawyer, photographer, writer and translator. She is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at Boise State University, Idaho.
Her writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Witness, CRAFT, Passages North, Quarterly West, etc., and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net Anthology. She is a two-time recipient of a Glenn Bach Award for Fiction, and her novel manuscript was shortlisted for the 2023 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize for Debut Novel.
She has been supported by Lagos International Poetry Festival, Hudson Valley Writers Center, GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing, Alexa Rose Foundation and Idaho Commission on the Arts.