Bio

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Tobi Ogundiran is the award-winning author of the Guardian of the Gods duology and the critically acclaimed collection Jackal, Jackal. He has won and been a finalist for several awards, including the Shirley Jackson, Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction Association, and Nommo awards. He’s called many places home, including Nigeria, Russia, and now the US. He’s an assistant professor of professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. 

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Tobi Ogundiran is the author of the Guardian of the Gods duology and the critically acclaimed, British Fantasy Award-winning short fiction collection, Jackal, Jackal. He has received/been a finalist for: the Locus, Ignyte, World Fantasy, British Science Fiction Association, Shirley Jackson, and Nommo awards. His work has been featured in original anthologies such as Africa Risen, The Book of Witches, The Big Bad Book of Kaiju among others; in several educational and Year’s Best anthologies; and twice on the hit podcast LeVar Burton Reads. Ogundiran has also written for the Overwatch and Magic: the Gathering universes. Born and raised in Nigeria, he now lives and works in the US as an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches speculative fiction writing.