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Samuel Kọ́láwọlé is a Nigerian writer and writing professor.

Personal life Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he was raised.

Career Samuel Kọ́láwọlé studied at the University of Ibadan and holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with distinction from Rhodes University, South Africa. He graduated with an MFA in Writing and Publishing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Kọ́láwọlé’s novel, The Road to Salt Sea, is forthcoming from Amistad/Harper Collins. His stories have appeared in numerous journals, including AGNI, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review, Consequence, Hopkins Review, Georgia Review, and forthcoming from Harvard Review and Image Journal.

His fiction has been supported with fellowships, residencies, and scholarships from the Norman Mailer Center, International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Columbus State University’s Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Clarion West Writers Workshop, Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, California, and Island Institute in Sitka. He was a finalist for the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, shortlisted for UK’s The First Novel Prize in 2019, and won a 2019 Editor-Writer Mentorship Program for Diverse Writers.

In 2013 he founded Writers Studio, running writing workshops in African cities. Samuel has taught creative writing in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. He has worked with a number of emerging writers around the African continent and the United States.

In 2021 he returned to VCFA to join the MFA in Writing Low residency faculty while working towards his PhD at Georgia State University. Kolawole will be an Assistant Professor of fiction at Pennsylvania State University beginning in the fall of 2022