ANGELA AJAYI’s first story, “Galina,” published in Fifth Wednesday Journal, won the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her essays, book reviews and author interviews have appeared in Pleiades,  Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common Online, Wild River Review and the Minneapolis Star Tribune where she is a contributing book critic. Her novel in stories, Everything Is Freedom, is forthcoming from Forest Avenue Press in fall of 2026.