AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA

Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93) is a lawyer and artist from Lagos, Nigeria. She holds 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., and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. She was also selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology. She has received fellowships and support from the Alexa Rose Foundation, Hudson Valley Writers Center, 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 in Paris. Her resume is available here.