official

Ola Faleti (b. 1992) is a creative raised & based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Chicago Reader, Interim, Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere. She's also the nonfiction editor for Vagabond City Lit.

Professionally, Ola runs Spare Jar Consulting, a grant writing and creative facilitation business. She believes there’s no such thing as too many flowers.

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Candy fiend. Diasporic daughter. Dyed-in-the-wool far Northsider (my city is better than yours, sorry). Sees 3s in everything. Laughs easily. Forgives less easily. Colors outside the margins. Will settle for the penultimate word. 

photo by Tonal Simmons