In this episode Marija is having a conversation with Yasmin Boakye.
Yasmin Boakye is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist and fiction writer raised in the Maryland suburbs of DC. The recipient of the 2020 Robertson Prize in Creative Nonfiction and featured writer at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s 2019 Creative Writing Festival, she is also a former Global Academic Fellow in Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi and a VONA/Voices alum. Her prose has appeared in Glass Mountain, Columbia Journal, Refinery29, TRACK/FOUR, mater mea, The Seventh Wave, and Puerto del Sol's Black Voices series.
A recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Callaloo, and Baltimore Youth Arts, Yasmin is currently based in Baltimore.
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