Aminatta Forna

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Aminatta Forna (OBE) is a prizewinning novelist, memoirist, and essayist. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her latest novel, Happiness (Grove), will be published in March 2018.

November 2018

Happiness by Aminatta Forna

New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2018. 368 pages. In writing workshops, I caution students against relying on coincidence to drive plot, as events that happen by chance are generally less interesting...
November 2017

Selective Empathy: Stories and the Power of Narrative

Photo: Daniel Tellman / Flickr Societies venerate their storytellers almost as much as the stories. We talk about the wonders that stories can create, the ways they can change t...