Dzifa Benson, originally from Ghana, has been writing for many years. More recently, she has been wowing audiences as a performance poet.

Dzifa Benson writes poems, short stories and radio plays. She is currently working on her first novel and a documentary about the evolution of African music. Her music and film journalism has appeared in the Guardian, Evening Standard and Trace magazine. A featured writer in the Tell Tales Volume One short story anthology and national tour in 2004, she has performed poetry and read short stories to audiences at the Tate Britain Gallery, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Speakeasy in Manchester and at the Westwords Literary Festival in west London.

She leads and facilitates the Shepherds Bush Library Creative Writing Workshop and is the co-founder of the Literature Foundry, an organisation that aims to provide and support literature development in West London.

If you would like to have Dzifa perform at your event, or find out when her next performance is please email here

If you would like to have Dzifa perform at your event, email here

Trevor Nelson interview

Fabulation - Theatre review

Babel Junction - Theatre Review

Poetry - Bottom Power

Poetry - In The Green Hour

Dzifa catches up with Jonzi D and his new production Tag. Me vs The City

Dzifa chats to Nutz P and HT from the Choong Family

Dzifa interviews Z*

Dzifa Benson talks to acclaimed writer Courttia Newland

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