Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He graduated from the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His chapbook, Koola Lobitos is forthcoming as a part of the New Generation African Poets Series edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani in Spring 2021. His work has appeared in LitHub, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is a 2021-2023 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.