Yaa Gyasi

Author, Homegoing: A Novel

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. Her short stories have appeared in \_African American Review\_ and \_Callaloo\_, and she is the author of \_Homegoing\_ (2016).