Tolani Akinola is an Atlanta-based writer who was mostly raised on Long Island, New York. She was a 2024 MacDowell artist-in-residence and 2023 Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow. Her fiction explores love, belonging, and the journey to selfhood within the Nigerian-American experience. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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