Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria, and graduated from Barnard and UPenn with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science. Her stories and poetry have appeared in New Writing from Africa 2009, Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, the Indiana Review, Wasafiri, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, and The American Poetry Review. Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad) is a linked short story collection that explores the world of four accomplished Nigerian women. Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape are students at an all-girls boarding school. They forge an unbreakable sisterhood – tempered during a school rebellion with repercussions that will reverberate throughout their lives. As children of well-to-do families, these young women have been raised with a thirst for independence, believing a university education is their right. But then, they must grapple with adulthood and the world’s uncertainties within and outside Nigeria. Revolving around loss, belonging, family, friendship, alienation, and silence, Jollof Rice is a portrait of women contending with the unsettling notion that moving forward in time isn’t necessarily progress.