Famia Nkansa

Famia Nkansa is a writer and communications consultant whose work spans multiple genres. Her poetry collection Sabbatical was commissioned for the 2017 New Generation of African Poets Boxset, edited by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes. Her non-fiction essays have been published in journals worldwide, including As-Us Journal, The Sonder Review, and the Writer’s Project of Ghana Anthology The Sea Has Drowned the Fish. Her short stories have appeared in Fiction International, the 5th FEMRITE anthology Nothing to See Here, and Payback and Other Stories: An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories. She is currently working on multiple projects, including a novel about African women, lizards, love and madness; and a narrative nonfiction book about a community of kayayei in Railways, an urban slum next to the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.