Koye Oyedeji is a fiction and non-fiction creative based in Washington D.C. His work is often centered around the Black diaspora. His writings have appeared in a number of publications including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Wasafiri Magazine, The Believer, and elsewhere. He has contributed to a number of anthologies, including The Fire People (Canongate Press) and IC3: The Penguin Book of Black British Writing (Penguin).
Oyedeji’s past fiction fellowships include the Callaloo Writer's Workshop and VONA writing workshop, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a Work Study Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He has taught at American University and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
At MacDowell, Oyedeji restructured and revised the final story for his novel-in-stories. Prior stories from the forthcoming book were printed in Virginia Quarterly Review in 2018 and 2024 and in Ploughshares in 2020.
