Michael Donkor

Michael Donkor (born 1985) is a British author and English teacher based in London.

[1] He completed his bachelor's degree in English at Wadham College, Oxford, as well as a master's in Creative Writing at University of London.

[2] In 2010 Donkor trained as an English teacher at the UCL Institute of Education, and began his teaching career at Esher College.

[6][7][8][9] It follows the stories of three teenage girls from Kumasi, Ghana, to Brixton, London, in 2002, and has been described as a coming-of-age novel.

[10][5] Donkor chose to set Hold in 2002 as it marks the summer he was applying to study English at university.