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.
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With hateful sentiment let loose in society writ large, the impulse has intensified to police speech in smaller, more controlled spaces. My @washingtonpost oped
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If press freedom is to survive in America, it will be because we rise up to demand and defend it as a cornerstone of democracy.
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As a nationwide community of novelists, journalists, editors, and writers, PEN America holds that President Trump’s efforts to use the power of the state against the media are not only unbecoming a US President—they’re unconstitutional. https://t.co/q5nJXduJn2