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Ayo Tamakloe-Garr

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Ayo Tamakloe-Garr

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Ayo Tamakloe-Garr is a writer born and raised in Accra, Ghana.1 His debut novel, The Wolf at Number 4, was published by Ohio University Press as part of its Modern African Writing series — a darkly funny, gothic-tinged story about nature, nurture, and the particular cruelty families are capable of.2

His short fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Ghana and the Writers Project of Ghana, with more recent work in Nenta Journal and, forthcoming, The Kalahari Review.3 He also writes poetry, most of it shorter than his patience for writing an author bio.4

He is drawn to the same handful of images, over and over: red earth roads, a cold that isn't supposed to exist this close to the equator, a fire that won't stay lit, a wolf who insists he isn't one.5 He still lives, works, and eavesdrops in Ghana.

  1. 1. Specifically, in the part of Accra where everyone's aunt somehow knows everyone else's aunt. ↩
  2. 2. Set in Cape Coast, a stone's throw — if you throw very well — from the sea that shows up in most of his other work too. ↩
  3. 3. He is aware that "forthcoming" is a word writers use the way sailors use "any day now." ↩
  4. 4. This is, admittedly, not a high bar. ↩
  5. 5. He'll deny the pattern if you point it out to him directly. ↩

Off the page

What I'm into

Music I write to

Books that made me

  1. 1. Animorphs— K.A. Applegate (1996)
  2. 2. Frankenstein— Mary Shelley (1818)
  3. 3. East of Eden— John Steinbeck (1952)
  4. 4. Things Fall Apart— Chinua Achebe (1958)
  5. 5. The Catcher in the Rye— J.D. Salinger (1951)
  6. 6. Heart of Darkness— Joseph Conrad (1899)
  7. 7. The Sun Also Rises— Ernest Hemingway (1926)
  8. 8. Wuthering Heights— Emily Brontë (1847)
  9. 9. The Great Gatsby— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  10. 10. Slaughterhouse-Five— Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

Movies I keep returning to

  1. 1. Interstellar— Christopher Nolan (2014)
  2. 2. East of Eden— Elia Kazan (1955)
  3. 3. Giant— George Stevens (1956)
  4. 4. Wild Strawberries— Ingmar Bergman (1957)
  5. 5. In the Mood for Love— Wong Kar-wai (2000)
  6. 6. M— Fritz Lang (1931)
  7. 7. The Music Man— Morton DaCosta (1962)
  8. 8. All About Eve— Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
  9. 9. Heritage Africa— Kwaw Ansah (1989)
  10. 10. Magnolia— Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)

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