Asha Bandele
Author, journalist and poet
Asha Bandele is an author and journalist who writes memoir, poetry and fiction. She first drew notice with her 1999 memoir The Prisoner's Wife.
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About Asha Bandele
Asha Bandele is an author and journalist. She was once a features editor at Essence Magazine. Her first book, The Prisoner's Wife, appeared in 1999. It is a memoir about her romance and marriage with a man serving a sentence of twenty years to life. She later wrote the memoir Something Like Beautiful, which follows that relationship and its loss. She has also published two poetry collections and a novel, Daughter. Her books in our catalog include When They Call You a Terrorist.