Afua Ansong is scholar and artist, currently working on a collection of poems about Adrinkra Symbols from Ghana, interacting with these symbols as modes of grief and artistic freedom. Her work can be seen or is forthcoming in The Common, Prairie Schooner, Frontier, and on her website: afuansong.com.
photo credit: Maria Baranova
Chapbooks: Black Ballad, editors’ selection from the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition