Fatima Osei is a Ghanaian-British novelist and former hospital chaplain. Born in Kumasi and raised between Accra and Sekondi-Takoradi, she studied religious studies and psychology at the University of Ghana before completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Her fiction often explores faith, secrecy, and the ethics of care, set against working harbors and forgotten edges of the map.
Her debut, The Salt in Our Teeth (2022), was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and the Bath Novel Award, earning praise for its tense, lyrical portrait of a coastal town in freefall. She followed with The Sleepers of Pokuase (2024), a psychological suspense novel about memory and misdiagnosis. Fatima Osei lives in Salford with her partner and a rescued greyhound, volunteers with a seafarers’ welfare charity, and is at work on new stories that navigate the fault lines between duty and desire.
