Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, creative writing tutor and author of two novels; Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and The Rest Of You due for publication in October 2024 with Ouida Books (West Africa), Verve Books (UK) and Amistad Books (US). Her short stories have been published in Joyful, Joyful (Pan Macmillan), Not Quite Right For Us (Flipped Eye Publishing) and New Australian Fiction 2020 (Kill Your Darlings). Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence.
She contributes regularly to Royal Literary Fund publication Writers Mosaic and The Bookseller Magazine, and her writing has appeared in many places including Refinery29, Black Ballad and The Independent. She teaches creative writing in the UK and Australia, including at City Lit, Arvon and The Stinging Fly. You can find out more about her work via https://maamebluewrites.com.