Yaw Atuobi

Yaw Atuobi (they) is a writer and an independent researcher whose work sits within the nexus of fiction, criticism and visual culture. A co-curator of littoral zone[s], 2025 writing fellow at A Public Space and the former critic-in-residence at the inaugural Black Atlantic Residency (2024) of the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD), Yaw is committed to emphasising the generative and constitutive role of criticism in the production of both visual and literary culture within continental Africa and its diaspora. Their fiction, conversations, criticism, translation (into Akan) and other projects can be found or are forthcoming in A Public Space Magazine, PARSE Journal, Za! Magazine, Jalada Africa, AKO Caine Prize for African Writing Anthology, Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa, and elsewhere.