Gabriel Awuah Mainoo Biography

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is a multiple award winning Ghanaian poet, raised as a sportsman by his father in football, racket sports and photography. He pursues tertiary education at the university of Cape Coast. Mainoo is a special prize winner of Soka Matsubara international Haiku contest, winner of 2021 Africa Haiku Prize, Forty Under 40 Awards for Authorship and Creative writing, LFP/ RML/ Library of Africa and the African Diaspora chapbook winner. Prize winner in the 2022 Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Contest & semifinalist of the Jack Grape International Poetry Prize. He's the Author of Travellers Gather Dust and Lust, (Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe) , We are Moulting Birds; (Light Factory Publication, Canada) , Chicken Wings at the Altar,60 Aces of Haiku and Lyrical Textiles; (Illuminated Press, USA) .Recipient of the West Africa Writers Residency. He edits poetry for Goat Shed Press & WGM Magazine. Mainoo's writing has appeared in The Cicada's cry (US) , An attempt at exhausting a place Leicestershire (UK) , Writers Space Africa, Fireflies' Light (Missouri Baptist University) , aAH! Magazine (Manchester Metropolitan University) , Wales Haiku Journal, EVENT (Douglas College) , Prairie Fire (Canada) , The Haiku Foundation, Best New African Poets Anthologies (2018,2019,2020) , Bodies & Scars, Black Bamboo, among others. Mainoo is a tennis professional in the morning, a student in the afternoon, and a writer in the evening.