Ayesha Harruna Attah was born in Accra, Ghana, in the 1980s, under a military government, to a mother who was a journalist and father who was a graphic designer [REF].
After growing up in Accra she moved to Massachusetts and studied Biochemistry at Mount Holyoke College,[REF] and then Columbia University,[REF] and she received an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University [REF].