Asale Angel-Ajani
New York, NY
Writing
Asale Angel-Ajani is the author of the novel A Country You Can Leave, published by MCD+FSG and Knopf, Canada. A Country You Can Leave was a 2023 Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read, a New York Times Recommended Book, and an Amazon Editors Fiction Pick. Her work in nonfiction includes, Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade about her work with West African women held in Europe’s largest female prison, Italy’s Rebibbia Femminile.