Ayesha Harruna Attah was born in Accra, Ghana. With a fellowship from Per Ankh Publishers (2007 - April 2008) and TrustAfrica, she wrote her first novel, Harmattan Rain, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa Region. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College and Columbia University and is currently pursuing her creative writing MFA at NYU.
Mildred Kiconco Barya (1976- ), born Owemigisha Patricia on 1 August 1976, is a writer and poet from Uganda. She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, but remains best known for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say (2002), and The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami (2006).
Barya has also worked as journalist and travel writer, and currently (as of August 2007 until August 2009) serves as Writer-In-Residence at TrustAfrica, a Pan-African foundation based in Dakar, Senegal. Barya also currently resides in Senegal, although she has previously lived and worked in Germany, Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. Besides her career as a writer, Barya has also worked as a Human Resource Advisor for Ernst & Young in Uganda.
[One of the Per Sesh Writing Program residents?]
Reflection / history of Per Ankh
Significance of choosing to publish in Africa (Bibi on relationship African / international publishers)
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