yasmin boakye
is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist and fiction writer raised in the Maryland suburbs of DC. The recipient of the 2020 Robertson Prize in Creative Nonfiction and featured writer at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s 2019 Creative Writing Festival, she is also a former Global Academic Fellow in Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi and a VONA/Voices alum. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Glass Mountain, Columbia Journal, Refinery29, TRACK/FOUR, mater mea, The Seventh Wave, and Puerto del Sol's Black Voices series.
A recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Callaloo, and Baltimore Youth Arts, Yasmin is currently based in Baltimore, where she works in education and teaches creative writing to middle schoolers through Writers in Baltimore Schools.