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Ama Codjoe was raised in Youngstown, Ohio with roots in Memphis and Accra. She has been awarded support from Cave Canem, Saltonstall, Jerome, and Rauschenberg foundations, Crosstown Arts, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook and the MacDowell Colony. Her recent poems have appeared in Gulf Coast online, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Georgia Review, Callaloo, and elsewhere. Codjoe holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She is the recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and a 2018 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from the Georgia Review, selected by Natasha Trethewey.