Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, opens three hundred years ago, in a small village in Ghana. As a mother screams her first child from her body, flames erupt in the woods, ravaging the countryside. With it, the fire carries the first ripples of change, not just for the newborn baby girl, but for another daughter,…
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Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Carly Lyn Heath
Carly Lyn Heath holds an MFA from Chapman University. She is the founding owner of Charming Films, LLC—a film production, illustration, and design company—and writer/director of the award-winning feature length film “A Foundling” starring Cindy Chiu and Tim Chiou. She currently works as an art professor and illustrator and has recently completed a novel. Carly currently lives in Chadron, Nebraska.
