AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA

Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93, Lagos) is a lawyer, photographer, writer, and translator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University and is currently in the English doctoral program at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

She is the author of the story collection LAGOS WILL BE HARD FOR YOU, published by Masobe Books in West Africa (2025) and forthcoming from Jacaranda Books in the UK & Commonwealth in 2026. Her novel, THE LAST ELECTRIC MAN IN THE WORLD, will be published in 2027.

Her work has appeared in The Common, CRAFT, Witness Magazine, Washington Square Review, etc., has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, and was included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology, and was a finalist for the 2023 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize for Debut Novel and the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has been supported by Hudson Valley Writers Center, Alexa Rose Foundation, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, and Key West Literary Seminar.

She is represented by Carla Briner of Pontas Literary & Film Agency.