AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA

Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93, Lagos) is a lawyer, photographer, writer, and translator.

Her writing has appeared in The Common, CRAFT, Witness Magazine, Passages North, 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 the Lagos International Poetry Festival, Hudson Valley Writers Center, GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing, Alexa Rose Foundation, Idaho Commission on the Arts, and Kimbilio for Black Fiction.