Kesha Ajose-Fisher

Kesha Ajose-Fisher was born in Chicago and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut collection of fictional stories, No God Like the Mother, recently won the Ken Kesey Award For Fiction in the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. Fisher has won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and The Phoenix Literary Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for Short Fiction in both 2011 and 2012. Her writing has been published in several online and print collections, and in such publications as Multicultural Familia Magazine, the Alchemy Literary Magazine, and twice in Beyond Black & White Magazine.