The Armenian Institute and the International Armenian Literary Alliance will welcome author Nadia Owusu to discuss her memoir, Aftershocks, on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:30 pm BST / 1:30 pm EST / 10:30 am PST.
The New York Times called Owusu’s memoir “gorgeous and unsettling.” The Washington Post described Aftershocks as “full of narrative risk and untrammeled lyricism.” Oprah Magazine said, “In a literary landscape rich with diaspora memoirs, Owusu’s painful yet radiant story rises to the forefront.”
Aftershocks topped many most-anticipated and best book of the year lists, including The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Vogue, TIME, Vulture, and the BBC. It was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s choice.
Owusu is a Ghanaian and Armenian-American writer and urbanist. Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, she was raised in Italy, Ethiopia, England, Ghana, and Uganda. Owusu is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Her lyric essay, So Devilish a Fire won the Atlas Review chapbook contest. By day, Owusu is the Director or Storytelling at Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned consulting firm that helps social-change organizations to define goals, execute plans, and evaluate impact. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction at the Mountainview low-residency program, where she now teaches.