Taofeek Ayeyemi, fondly called Aswagaawy, is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and author of eight chapbooks including Tongueless Secrets (Ethel Press, 2021), Dust & Rust (Buttonhook Press, 2022) and Some Stars Do Not Fall (Nimble House, 2024), and a full-length collection aubade at night or serenade in the morning (Flowersong Press, 2021).
A BotN and Pushcart Prize Nominee, his works have appeared in CV 2, Lucent Dreaming, Up-the-Staircase Quarterly, FERAL, ARTmosterrific, Banyan Review, Conscio, Porter House Review, the QuillS and elsewhere.
He won the 2021 Loft Books Flash Fiction Competition, 2nd Place in 2021 Porter House Review Poetry Contest, and Honorable Mention in 2021 Oku-no-hosomichi Soka Matsubara Haiku Contest and 2020 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, among others. He is @Aswagaawy on Twitter.