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Yaa Gyasi

YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

Articles by Yaa Gyasi

A woman with natural black hair and medium-dark skin wears a grey top and dangling earrings, looking slightly upward with a subtle smile against a neutral background.
Friday February 24

from Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi’s HOMEGOING is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Read an excerpt from the novel.

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