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 in the English doctoral program at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Her debut story collection, LAGOS WILL BE HARD FOR YOU, was a finalist for the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and is 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, is slated for publication in 2027.

Her work has appeared in The Common, CRAFT, Witness Magazine, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere; has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, and was included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology. 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.