Radhiyah Ayobami

Radhiyah Ayobami is Brooklyn-born with Southern roots. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Brooklyn College, an MFA in Prose from Mills College, and has received awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and a residency with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has been published in several anthologies and journals, including AGNI, Apogee, Aster(ix), and Tayo Literary Magazine. Some of her most enjoyable work has been facilitating workshops with pregnant teens, inmates, and elders. Her free time is spent listening to plants, going to her son's basketball games, and working on her first novel. Ayobami self-published her first book, the long amen (2019).

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