Maame Blue

MAAME BLUE is a Ghanaian-Londoner, part-time Melbourne resident and author of the novel Bad Love (Jacaranda Books), which was named as one of the top three debuts of 2020 by Cheltenham Literature Festival. She is the winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Award. Maame is also a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, an Arts Council England 2022 Develop Your Creative Practice grant and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in- Residence. Her short stories have appeared in Not Quite Right For Us (Flipped Eye Publishing), New Australian Fiction 2020 (Kill Your Darlings) and Joyful, Joyful (Pan Macmillan). Maame’s writing has appeared in multiple media publications, including Refinery29, the Independent and the i, and she teaches creative writing in the UK and Australia.