Mamle Kabu

Mamle Kabu is a multi-genre Ghanaian/German writer, born and based in Ghana, who knew from the time she started reading fiction that she wanted to be a writer. Her short stories have been published in various anthologies and journals including Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience (W.W. Norton, 2006) and African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010). In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her story The End of Skill. Her upcoming, first full-length adult novel is based on this story.

Mamle loves immersing herself in writing communities. She participated in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in 2014, was a visiting Mellon fellow at the Creative Writing Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2023, and is one of the directors of the Writers Project of Ghana (WPG), and co-editor of two WPG anthologies, The Sea has drowned the Fish (2018), and Resilience (2021).