Fowota Mortoo is a geographer, writer, and visual artist. Compelled by the stories, memories, and imagination that pattern places, her work makes [physical and nonphysical] spaces where those memories can be returned to. Her essays and visual works can be found in The Funambulist, Disegno Journal, and you are here: the journal of creative geography.

In 2024, she was a fellow with ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge and selected as one of the 25 under 25 Young Climate Prize Awardees by The World Around.

She is currently a doctoral student in geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.