Tryphena L. Yeboah, a winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize and Second Place winner in Narrative’s 2026 Spring Story Contest, was born in Mampong, Ghana. The author of the poetry collection A Mouthful of Home, she received an MA in development communication from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and an MFA in creative writing from Chapman University. She teaches English and creative writing at Tennessee Wesleyan University.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Any Good Child, a short story, in Fall 2024
- The Dishwashing Women, a short story, in Fall 2022
- The Ravages of an Unloved Life, an essay, in Fall 2020
- To This God I Will Say, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020
- If the Body Makes a Sound, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2020–2021
- First Light, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020