Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi is the author of Homegoing. She was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Her short stories have appeared in African American Review and Callaloo.

Inscape

By June 15, 2015

Boundaries of Taste: And as I parted my lips and then, later, my legs, watching the last clouds of smoke slip upward, I kept hearing my mother’s voice say, “Jesus is a fire.”