Agymah Kamau

Kwadwo Agymah Kamau is a Barbadian American novelist.

He is a native of Barbados, moved to New York in 1977. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University. He graduated from Baruch College of CUNY with a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree (1985) in quantitative economics. He served first as a statistician at the New York City Department of Investigations, then as a senior economist at the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance. He studied with Paule Marshall at Virginia Commonwealth University in the MFA program.

His work has appeared in Callaloo, Caribbean Vibes, Gumbo, InSyte Magazine,

He teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.

• 2000 Virginia Governor's Award for the Arts nomination
• 2000 Commonwealth of Virginia/Library of Virginia Literary Award
• 2000 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Pictures of a Dying Man
• 2000 Gustavus Myers Book Award, finalist for Pictures of a Dying Man
• 2003 Whiting Award

• Flickering Shadows. Coffee House Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-56689-049-6. 
• Pictures of a Dying Man. Coffee House Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-56689-087-8.