Dr. Tryphena Yeboah

Workshop Date: Oct 11, 2025 at 1pm

Instagram Live : Nov 8 on website

Tryphena Yeboah is the author of A Mouthful of Home (Akashic Books, 2020). She received an MA in Development Communication from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. She holds a doctoral degree in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize and a 2024 Caine Prize finalist. Her essays and stories have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Lit Hub, and December Magazine, among others. In 2024, her short story was selected for the Pushcart Prize series. She is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at Tennessee Wesleyan University.

Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Agyeman

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Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Ghana. He is also the Academic Director for SIT Ghana, a study abroad program.   

Opoku-Agyemang's research revolves around African literature with a focus on digital creative expression. He has published articles on topics such as flash fiction in Ghana, the use of technology in African literature, and the representation of slavery in West African digital literature. He has also guest-edited special issues of journals such as the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and Postcolonial Text.