Nkrumah Mensah comes from a long line of oral storytellers. And wanting to keep her stories going outside of the family and to share with others, Nkrumah chose a degree in English from Mary Baldwin College where she had several poems published in the school literary magazine. Years later, after two children and a move to Greensboro, North Carolina, she published another poem in the "We Are Greensboro" magazine. Anne of Survivor is her first foray into novel writing.
