Tolu Daniel is a Nigerian writer. He is an MFA Creative Writing graduate from Washington University in St Louis. He attended Kansas State University where he was awarded the Seaton Fellowship, Peggy & Gary Edwards Scholarship and the Popkins Scholarship for Creative Writing. He is the curator of Ellipsis, a newsletter featuring diasporic voices on Culture, Migration, Displacement, & Literature via Personal Essays & Interviews. His essays and short stories have appeared on Catapult.co, Olongo Africa, The Nasiona Magazine, Lolwe, Prachya Review, Elsewhere Literary Journal, and a few other places. He was longlisted for the 2018 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction.
Tolu Daniel
PhD student in Comparative Literature; International Writers Track
Film & Media Studies
Film & Media Studies
Washington University in St Louis, MFA Creative Writing (2024)
Kansas State University, MA English (2023)
Kansas State University, MA English (2023)
research interests:
- Migration Studies
- Communication
- Creative Nonfiction
- Diasporic Literature
contact info:
- Email: toludaniel@wustl.edu
mailing address:
- MSC 1107-146-100
- Washington University
- One Brookings Drive
- St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
