Martin Egblewogbe

Martin Egblewogbe is a senior lecturer in Physics at the University of Ghana, and a writer. He is the author of the collection of short stories, Mr Happy and The Hammer of God and other Stories (Ayebia, 2012). His writing has appeared in a number of collections, such as the 2014 Caine Prize anthology, PEN America’s Passages Africa (2015), All The Good Things Around Us (Ayebia, 2016), and Litro #162: Literary Highlife (2017). Martin also co-edited the anthology of short stories, The Sea Has Drowned the Fish (2018) as well as the anthologies of poetry Look where you have gone to sit (Woeli, 2010) and According to Sources (Woeli, 2015). He hosts the radio show, Writers Project on Citi FM. His latest collection, The Waiting (lubin & kleyner, 2020) was released in February 2020. His short story, “A Domestic Misunderstanding” appeared in the anthology Between the Generations (Vidya, 2020) and his short story “The Wild Place” will be published in an anthology later in 2020. He is a co-founder and a director of the Writers Project of Ghana, and was director of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra in the 2017 – 2019 editions.