The Ocean Between Us
by A’bena Awuku Larbi & Amy Shimshon-Santo
The Ocean Between Us is a literary collaboration between A’bena Awuku-Larbi and Amy Shimshon-Santo. Their letters and poems correspond across space and time through a dialogue that connects their lives, languages, and imaginations. The Ocean Between Us gives voice to the lives of two women separated by the sea, but connected by friendship and epistolary poetry. This digital publication debuted live at the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra, Ghana in 2022. The book marks a fresh intergenerational creative process cultivated between two women authors living through the pandemic in Accra and Los Angeles.