Nadia Owusu

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

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

Personal life

Nadia Owusu was born on February 23, 1981, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her parents were Almas Janikian and Osei Owusu. Almas’ 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 England, Italy, Ethiopia and Uganda. Owusu has lived in New York since she was 18.[2]

Works
  • Aftershocks, A Memoir, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2020. ISBN 9781982111229[3][4][5][6]
  • So Devilish a Fire Brooklyn, NY : TAR Chapbook series, 2017.

References
  1. "Nadia Owusu". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  2. Owusu, Nadia (2021). Aftershocks: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-1-9821-1122-9.
  3. Szalai, Jennifer (2021-01-13). "In 'Aftershocks,' a Search for Home in a Life Around the World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  4. "Nadia Owusu: 'I wrote as a way to process trauma'". the Guardian. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  5. Schama, Chloe (13 January 2021). "In Her New Memoir, 'Aftershocks,' Nadia Owusu Examines the Lasting Fault Lines of Trauma". Vogue. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. "'Aftershocks' Is A Powerful Memoir Of A Life Upended — Then Pieced Back Together". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
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