Kesha Ajose-Fisher

Kesha Ajose-Fisher was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and returned to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She won the Oregon Book Awards' 2020 Ken Kesey Prize for her debut collection, No God Like the Mother . She is also an Oregon Literary Fellow and a relentless student of the human condition. Ajose-Fisher's work has appeared in collections such as The Alchemy, The Phoenix , and The Buckman Journal , and one of her stories was recently anthologized in...See more

Kesha Ajose-Fisher was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and returned to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She won the Oregon Book Awards' 2020 Ken Kesey Prize for her debut collection, No God Like the Mother . She is also an Oregon Literary Fellow and a relentless student of the human condition. Ajose-Fisher's work has appeared in collections such as The Alchemy, The Phoenix , and The Buckman Journal , and one of her stories was recently anthologized in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. See less