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Yaa Gyasi

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Includes the names: Yaa Gyasi, Gyasi Yaa

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Date of birth
1989
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female
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USA
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Mampong, Ghana
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Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
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Iowa Writers' Workshop
Stanford University (BA/English)
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National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2016)
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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. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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