Famia Nkansa is a Ghanaian writer whose work has been published in Fiction International, PoetryInternational, the Sonder Review, As/Us, Black Arts Quarterly, Callaloo, and the fifth FEMRITE Residency anthology Nothing to See Here. She was a finalist for the 2015 BN Poetry Prize. Her collection Sabbatical was published as part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets box set.
Merikokeb Berhanu (Ethiopia/US), Untitled XLVII (2020), acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in. / Courtesy of Addis Fine Art
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