Kwadwo Agymah Kamau is a novelist, originally from Barbados, who moved to New York in 1977. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from Baruch College of CUNY with a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree in quantitative economics in 1985. He served first as a statistician at the New York City Department of Investigation, then as a senior economist at the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance, before writing. His first novel, Flickering Shadows (1996), was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award, and was listed among the Library Journal's top 20 first novels of 1996. His second novel, Pictures of a Dying Man (1999), was listed among the Village Voice's best 25 books of 1999, won the Commonwealth of Virginia Literary Award, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award, was a finalist and received honorable mention for the Gustavus Myers Book Award, and was nominated for the Governor's Award for the Arts in Virginia. His work has also appeared in Callaloo, Caribbean Vibes, Gumbo, and InSyte Magazine. In 2003, he received Virginia Commonwealth University’s Alumnus of the Year Award. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.
Agymah Kamau
Studios
MacDowell
Agymah Kamau worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…