photo by Nana Kwadwo Agyei Addo

Claudia Owusu is a Ghana girl through and through. As a writer and filmmaker, her work divulges the nuance of Black girlhood through a personal and collective lens. 

Her writing is featured or is forthcoming in The Offing Mag, Chestnut Review, Ninth Letter, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Her films have screened internationally at Aesthetica, the New York African Film Festival, Urbanworld, and Blackstar Fest.

She is the author of the chapbook, In These Bones I am Shifting from Akashic Books. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The Ohio State University.

p.s.

Her favorite song, if she had to choose, is “Binz” by Solange.

  • 2025 | Julia Reichert Award for Emerging Female Documentarians, Yellow Springs Film Festival

    2025 | Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, Ohioana Library

    2025 | Citino Graduate Poetry Award

    2024 | GCAC Artist Film Grant

    2024 | Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry

    2024 | Academy of American Poets Award (Honorable Mention)

    2024 | Haidee Forsyth Burkhardt Award in Creative Nonfiction (Honorable Mention)

    2022 | Dean Graduate Enrichment Fellowship

    2021 | Blackstar Documentary Pitch Winner - Warner Media 150

    2021 | GCAC Big Ideas Grant