Abena Eyeson

Abena Eyeson

  • 5 stars across 4 books
Abena Eyeson was born in Ghana but has lived in the UK since the age of 12. She has won accolades for the FAB Prize, Jericho Prize and TLC Pen Factor. She writes picture books, educational non-fiction and has self-published YA. Abena lives just outside London with her husband and three children. It was her children that inspired her to put Black characters at the heart of her stories. RUNNING MY OWN RACE is her first middle grade novel.
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