Ayesha Harruna Atta

is a Senegal-based Ghanaian author who has published five novels: Harmattan Rain (2009), Saturday’s Shadows (2015), The Hundred Wells of Salaga (2018), The Deep Blue Between (2020) and Zainab Takes New York (2022). She was a finalist in the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, long-listed for the Prix Les Afriques, and shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.