Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra, Ghana, and was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the author of Harmattan Rain, nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Saturdays Shadows, and The Hundred Wells of Salaga, currently translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia, Asymptote Magazine, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal.

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