AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA

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

Her writing has appeared in The Common, CRAFT, Witness Magazine, Washington Square Review, etc., and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net Anthology. She 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 is also a three-time recipient of a Glenn Bach Award for Fiction.

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.