{"id":5867,"date":"2025-08-15T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=5867"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:15:07","slug":"omolola-ijeoma-ogunyemi","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/omolola-ijeoma-ogunyemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. A finalist for the 2009 PEN\/Studzinski Award, her stories have been published in New Writing from Africa 2009 (a collection of PEN\/Studzinski Award finalists\u2019 stories), Ploughshares, and mentioned in The Best American Short Stories 2018. Her poetry has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, the Indiana Review and Wasafiri. She graduated from Barnard and UPenn with bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degrees in computer science. Omolola is a Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, where she teaches and conducts research on using biomedical informatics to reduce health disparities. She lives in California with her husband<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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