Koye Oyedeji

Biography

Koye Oyedeji’s writing has previously appeared in VQR, the Believer, Wasafiri Magazine, BRAND, and the Washington City Paper Fiction Issue. He has also contributed to a number of anthologies including IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (Penguin, 2001), and has received scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf and the Sewanee writers’ conferences.

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2018

The Pardner

By Koye Oyedeji ,  Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber

It has been a year and five days since Mayowa lost her daughter—lost, because she cannot say the other word: suicide. 
FICTION / Winter 2017

Natural Disasters

By Koye Oyedeji ,  Illustration by Kristen Radtke

You’re clutching your left side when you arrive home late Friday evening. You bring some of the outside cold with you into the living area of the house. Small traces of snow run along the creases and folds in your coat, and flakes thaw...