Toya Wolfe
Toya Wolfe grew up in the now-demolished Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her stories have appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hair Trigger 27, and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shiflett and John Schultz Short Story Award. Her debut novel, Last Summer on State Street was published on June 7th 2022.