A curator of littoral, an undisciplined project, 2025 writing fellow at A Public Space, and the former critic-in-residence at the inaugural Black Atlantic Residency (2024) of the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD), Yaw is committed to emphasising the generative and constitutive role of criticism in the production, consumption and transformation of culture within continental Africa and its diaspora. Their fiction, conversations, criticism, translation (into Akan), and other projects can be found or are forthcoming in A Public Space, PARSE Journal, A Long House Magazine, Za! Magazine, Jalada Africa, AKO Caine Prize for African Writing Anthology, Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa, and elsewhere.
Yaw was previously an EXITFRAME CRITLabs Fellow, and was selected for the AKO Caine Prize Writing Workshop, the Goethe-Institut/SBMEN Art Writing and Criticism Workshop, and the Ebedi International Writers Residency, among others. They have worked with the Writers Project of Ghana, Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Fair, HBFK, Ashesi University, and Goethe-Institut.
Yaw is currently an associate of the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Accra. They are also a Creative Writing MFA student in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where they teach Rhetoric and continue their project of undecided genre and disciplinary commitments: an uneasy alliance between literary rigour and scholarly refinement.
They may be contacted via email or Instagram.