Olufunke Grace Bankole

Olufunke Grace Bankole is the author of The Edge of Water (Tin House Books), winner of the Westport Prize for Literature and the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, as well as a Best Book of the Year at TIME, Apple, Electric Literature, Chicago Review of Books, and more. The novel has been widely praised, including by Oprah Daily, Goodreads, Book Riot, and was finalist for the New American Voices Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bankole's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and AGNI. Her writing has received support from such organizations as the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Sitka Center.