Ivana Akotowaa Ofori is a Ghanaian storyteller. Known also by the alias of “The Spider Kid,” she is a weaver of words in many forms, including fiction, non-fiction and spoken-word poetry. Akotowaa has been nominated for various awards for her prose writing. Her work is included in the Flash Fiction Ghana anthology, Kenkey for Ewes and Other Very Short Stories, and the Writivism anthology, And Morning Will Come. Writing aside, Akotowaa spends much of her time looking for excuses to make everything purple.
She has been included in the Africa Risen Anthology 2022 (Tor.com) with her short story, “Exiles of Witchery”. her novel The Year of Return has been published in the US with Android Press and in West Africa with Smartline publishers.
Books
The Year of Return