Une Lettre si Courte/The Girl in Blue
by FATOU SOW
in Spring 2025
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Une Lettre Si Courte
The Girl in Blue
Fatou Sow is a creative writer, poet, and professor with Senegalese and African American roots from Detroit, MI. Her work focuses on familial connection, self-reflection, and humanistic experiences shared across the African diaspora. As a multi-hyphenate, she finds herself questioning the meaning of life, from grief to love and religion to language.
Fatou is a Senior Associate at Breakwater Strategy and an Adjunct Professor at Howard University in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications Annenberg Honors Program. A world-traveler, life-learner, and communicator: Fatou enjoys sharing stories of Black elders and seeks to understand the power of generational confluence through storytelling, family photography, and Black history. Her writings have been published in Vogue, The SAIS Observer, and the Passion Planner, and showcased in safe spaces like BasBlue in Detroit, MI. Fatou earned a BA in Strategic, Legal, and Management Communications from Howard University and an MA in International Relations with a focus on International Economics and African Studies from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
