Kofi Chen is a Chinese-Ghanaian writer and design researcher born in 1989 in Accra. He studied electrical engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and later completed a master's in interactive media at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After working on civic-technology projects in Nairobi and Shenzhen, he returned to Ghana to lead user research at a startup building low-cost environmental sensors for coastal towns. His short fiction and essays have appeared in regional journals and translation anthologies, and he has taught workshops on speculative design at Ashesi University. He lives in Tema with his partner and an elderly grey parrot that refuses to learn new phrases.
