Taofeek Ayeyemi

Taofeek Ayeyemi fondly called Aswagaawy is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and author of the chapbook Tongueless Secrets (Ethel Press, 2021) and a collection "aubade at night or serenade in the morning" (Flowersong Press, TBD 2021). His works have appeared or forthcoming in CV2, Lucent Dreaming, Ethel-zine, Up-the-Staircase Quarterly, ARTmosterrific, Banyan Review, Presence, tinywords, the QuillS and elsewhere. He won the 2021 Loft Books Flash Fiction Contest, 2018 PoeticWednesday Poetry Contest,

Honorable Mention Prizes in 2020 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2020 Akita International Haiku Contest, 2020 Fujisan Taisho International Tanka Contest and 2nd Prize in 2016 Christopher Okigbo Poetry Prize. He is @Aswagaawy on Facebook and Twitter. When he's not in the court arguing, in the chambers drafting, in the bedchamber with his cats poeticizing or meditating as a Sufi, he'll be somewhere in the world talking.