Ayotola Tehingbola

AYOTOLA TEHINGBOLA is a lawyer, writer, photographer, and translator. Her writing 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, and was included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology.

She was shortlisted for the 2023 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. 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. Lagos Will Be Hard For You is her debut.