Djarah Kan is an Italian-Ghanaian writer. She was born in Italy and grew up in Castel Volturno. In 2018, she participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has written for magazines such as Gli Asini, il Magazine Rosa Luxemburg, Jacobin Italia, FQ Millennium, l’Espresso Settimanale, l’Essenziale, and La Repubblica. She contributed to the anthology Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (2019) and is the author of Ladri di denti (2020), a collection of stories and essays centered on the themes of alienation and racism. In 2022, she published a short story titled "Il mio nome non è Najira" in the American magazine Hunger Mountain.