Publications
Fiction
At a Stranger’s Funeral, Blackbird
Miss Freda Pays a Visit, Afreada (included in the 2019 edition of the Best Small Fictions anthology.)
Poetry
Razors for Breakfast, The Fem Lit Mag (mentioned in this review of The Fem on The Review Review.)
Benediction for Black Madonna, selected as part of the City of Boston Poetry Program
Nonfiction
My Secondhand Lonely, Slice Magazine
My Secondhand Lonely, republished on Longreads (included among the Notable Essays in the 2018 Best American Essays Anthology.)
Local Accra with a Twist of International Luxe, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, edited by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, and Phiwokuhle Mnyandu
Review of Well-Read Black Girl Anthology, The Washington Post
Review of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young, The Washington Post
Genre? I don’t know her…
Calling Out Ethnic Bigotry in the Ghanaian Public Sphere II, Savannah Lifestyle
Residencies + Workshops
Fellow (Fall 2014- Spring 2015), Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University
Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, May 2017
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, June 2019
Education
BA, French, Georgetown University, 2015
MFA, Creative Writing, Emerson College, 2017
Find me
Email: zoegadegbeku@gmail.com
Twitter: @HerWildness
Instagram: @zoedlg
