Akua Serwaa Amankwah

Akua Serwaa Amankwah is an interdisciplinary creative artist from Ghana with research interests in Children’s Literature, Creative Writing, (Digital African) Literature, Ghanaian history, and Photography. Her stories have been published in The Mirror and Flash Fiction Ghana, as well as the Kenkey for Ewes, Resilience, and A Mind to Silence anthologies. She won the Worldreader Inspire Us Writing contest in 2019, and the Imagining Early Accra competition in 2021. She is an alumna of the 2021 Tampered Press Fiction Workshop and the 2022 AKO Caine Prize Writing Workshop. She is currently working on three collections of stories for children.

Akua has a BA in English and is anticipating an MPhil in English (Literature) from the University of Ghana. She is the founder and Creative Lead of Studio Mansa, a brand that offers an interdisciplinary perspective by exploring photography, films, and (visual) art, design, and text using literature. She currently works with medical data in health technology.