Ama Codjoe was raised in Youngstown, Ohio, and has roots in Memphis and Accra. She has earned several fellowships, including the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellowship from the creative writing department at New York University.WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:Untitled (Woman Brushing Hair) , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2016–2017Two Girls Bathing and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2017