Koye Oyedeji is a fiction and non-fiction creative based in Washington D.C. His work is often centered around the Black diaspora. His writings have appeared in a number of publications including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Wasafiri Magazine, The Believer and elsewhere.

He has contributed to a number of anthologies, including The Fire People (Canongate Press) and IC3: The Penguin Book of Black British Writing (Penguin). The short story, Postscript From The Black Atlantic, was shortlisted for both the 2015 Washington D.C. Commission for the Arts & Humanities Larry Neal award and the Wasafiri 2015 New Writers series. His past fiction fellowships include the Callaloo Writer's Workshop and VONA writing workshop, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a Work Study Scholarship at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He has taught at American University and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he helped revamp the creative writing program. He is currently working on a composite novel and a novel.