Mariska Araba Taylor-Darko

Mariska Araba Taylor-Darko is a published writer, poet and youth motivator. She has published several books, The Secret to Detoxifying your Life and Love, Rhythms of Poetry in Motion (Vol 1), The Iced Water Seller, an eBook titled A Widow must not Speak, The Deer Hunt, King Goat Aponkye, I love Ghana and The Proud Peacock.

Her poems are featured in anthologies such as According to Sources (ed. Martin Egblewogbe and Mawuli Adjei), Ellas (Tambien) Cuentan (ed. Federico Vivanco), Inspiration African Voices, Door of [No] Return, Our Spirits carry Our Voices, and Sisters Across Oceans and various blogs, including an online poetry site www.oneghanaonevoice.com. Her short story, “The Proud Peacock” was selected among 12 stories out of 80 submitted for an anthology in “Story, Story, Story Come” published in East and West Africa and another short story “Escaped” was featured in the Writers Project anthology Resilience. She has also been published, in Jambo, an East African magazine. Mariska has performed on stage and at Festivals in Ghana and the United Kingdom. She is a long time collaborator with The Women Poets International Movement (Mujeres Poetas Internacional, MPI Inc.) in partnership with the Grito de Mujer®. She is also a member of the Ghana Association of Writers.

Mariska also has two blogs, www.africanwomanspoetry.blogspot.com and www.fantimaame.wordpress.com .