Tola Rotimi Abraham is a the author of the acclaimed novel, Black Sunday, selected as one of NPR's Best Books of the Year. 

She holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her work has appeared in publications including Catapult, The Des Moines Register, and The Nigerian Literary Magazine. 

  Tola has been longlisted for the Aspen World Literary Prize, named a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Awards

She was born in Lagos, Nigeria and now lives in the United States.