Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone

Dr. Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, scholar and pleasure activist whose praxis navigates that which she has termed “Intimate Ecologies” to explore Blackness, erotics and the more-than-human in queer and speculative ways toward interspecies futures. Ama is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, an MFA tutor at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at VIAD (University of Johannesburg). Ama’s short stories, art writing and essays Ama’s writing has been commissioned and published widely by the likes of Tate Modern, Contemporary&, Aperture, the Independent, Whitechapel, Duke University Press, the Feminist Review and more, and translated into Twi, French, German and Swedish. She has exhibited video and installation work internationally. Ama was recently awarded a PhD is Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck University of Londonand is currently working on her first novel, a speculative meditation on sentient trees, queer erotics and isolation, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers of Colour.