Portia Tewogbade

Portia Tewogbade is an award-winning author, who taught English for several years at Georgia Tech and Nigeria’s Federal Government College in Kaduna. A graduate of Morris Brown College and Carnegie-Mellon University, she also taught history at West Virginia State College. Her short stories have appeared in African Voices, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and the Hawaii Pacific Review, among other publications.

 

Portia has been a "serious" writer for twenty-three years, but still is considered a late bloomer. She is inspired by Wole Soyinka, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, and J. M. Coetzee. Her first novel was written during twelve years of working for a major retailer and insurance companies. That novel could not find a home, so it is now residing in the dust under her bed.

 

She is writing a second novel, Red Midnight, near her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Red Midnight is a fictionalized story about some of the people who were ravaged by the 1906 Atlanta race riot.

 

 For additional information about During a Dry Season or writing, please contact Portia: portiatewogbade@hotmail.com.  She would love to hear from you, and is especially interested in speaking to book clubs and other audiences.