Nadia Owusu

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Nadia Adjoa Owusu (born February 23, 1981) is an American writer and memoirist. She won a 2019 Whiting Award for her memoir Aftershocks. [1]

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She graduated from Pace University, Hunter College, and Mountainview College.

In December 2017, her essay So Devilish a Fire was one of three TAR Chapbook Winners by The Atlas Review (TAR), a literary magazine that judged submissions anonymously. [2] [3] The essay was published as a chapbook by TAR in 2017. [4]

Personal life

Nadia Owusu was born on February 23, 1981, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her parents were Almas Janikian and Osei Owusu. Almas' family are Armenian Americans; her maternal grandparents had fled Turkey during the Armenian genocide, eventually settling in Watertown, Massachusetts. Owusu's father was from southern Ghana and part of the Ashanti tribe. Since Owusu's father worked for the United Nations, she moved a lot as a child; living in London England), Rome (Italy), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Kampala (Uganda), Kumasi (Ghana) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Owusu has lived in New York since she was 18. [4] [5]

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References

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  2. "Announcing the Third-Annual TAR Chapbook Winners!". The Atlas Review (TAR). December 23, 2017. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018.
  3. "About". The Atlas Review (TAR). Archived from the original on July 2, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Nadia Owusu (March 20, 2019). "Nadia Owusu, Nonfiction". The Paris Review . Retrieved December 26, 2023.
  5. Owusu, Nadia (2021). Aftershocks: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. pp. 7–9. ISBN   978-1-9821-1122-9.
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