About

Olakunle Ologunro is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University, and is currently serving as the 2025-2026 Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Fiction at Colgate University. His writing has been awarded a 2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, a Juniper Summer Workshop Scholarship, and nominated for a Pushcart prize. His work has also received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Vermont Studio Center, and Aspen Words, where he was named a 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow in Fiction. He is at work on a collection of stories and a novel.