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Yolanda Kwadey

Ph.D. Student

Yolanda Kwadey is an MFA student in the English Department with a BA in Economics and Linguistics from the University of Ghana. She was first published in “All Ghana A Stage”, an anthology by the Second Lady of Ghana in 2021, and was awarded UF’s Rebecca Elizabeth Porter Creative Writing Fellowship in 2023. She has a rich background in investment management and diverse administrative roles, and aspires to collide her corporate experience and her African background with the craft of creative writing and its publishing industry.

Fields of Study:

  • Fiction
  • African Feminism
  • Black American Studies

Contact

UF email: ykwadey@ufl.edu