Biography

Afua Ansong is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mt. Holyoke College. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing and MBA from the University of Rhode Island. She has three chapbooks, Black Ballad (Bull City Press, 2022), Try Kissing God (Akashic, 2020), and American Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and has published work in Prairie Schooner, Four Way Review, Maine Review, and other journals. More of her work is at afuasong.com.