AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA

Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93) is a lawyer and artist from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from Boise State University and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Her debut story collection, LAGOS WILL BE HARD FOR YOU, was shortlisted for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, and is published by Masobe Books (West Africa, 2025) and Jacaranda Books (UK/Commonwealth, 2026).

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 selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology. She has been supported by the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Alexa Rose Foundation, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, and the Key West Literary Seminar.

She is represented by Carla Briner of Anna Jarota Agency, France. Her resume is available here.