Ayesha harruna attah grew up in accra, ghana, and became educated at mount holyoke university, columbia university, and ny university.
She is the author of the commonwealth writers’ prize nominated harmattan rain, saturday shadows, the hundred wells of salaga, presently translated into four languages and finalist of the william saroyan writing prize, and the ya novel the deep blue between.
Her writing has appeared in the big apple instances, ny times magazine, elle italia, asymptote magazine, and the 2010 caine prize writers’ anthology.
Attah is an instituto sacatar fellow and changed into offered the 2016 miles morland foundation scholarship for non-fiction. She lives in senegal.
Source: PLTNM