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Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She received 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 New York. Her first novel is Homegoing.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Yaa Gyasi | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Yaa Gyasi & Luke Neima

‘Place is something I'm fascinated by and how it shapes you in ways that are really hard to see and imagine’

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

Leaving Gotham City

Yaa Gyasi

‘I can’t remember the last time we said I love you before hanging up the phone. I can’t even remember the last time we said goodbye.’

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