About

Eva June Poku aka Dr. June, was born in Ghana and spent her formative years in Cameroon. On her return to Ghana, she developed close friendships with the Francophone community at her school, enabling her to keep her French fluency. She is a proud graduate of Archbishop Porter Girls Secondary School in Takoradi, Ghana, and holds a PharmD from UMES School of Pharmacy, MD, USA. She currently works as a full-time Pharmacist and is working on her cybersecurity certification with the hope of combining healthcare with IT, an earlier passion of hers. She resides in Baltimore, MD with her family.

Composing literature is Dr. June’s first love – besides her family- and she has been doing so as a hobby since primary school. Soon after her kid brother’s death over two decades ago, she took on creative expression as an outlet to escape her grief. Her poems and short writings would later be what she sought consolation in. When the opportunity came for her to participate in the Macmillan Short Writers Competition within a year of his passing, she wrote her very first book, Men Don’t Cry, Boys Do. Though it did not make it to the finals, she was inspired by two great men – Bill Okyere Marshall, a fellow artist and former Director of NAFTI (National Film and Television Institute) and Professor Atukwei Okai, former Secretary-General of the Pan African Writers Association, both of blessed memory. Both men had faith in her and encouraged her to pursue her passion. Though they are no longer physically here with us, she does acknowledge that their deep trust and guidance have shaped her into the author that she is today.

Her 2nd book, “The BET” which she launched in summer 2025 along with Men Don’t Cry, Boys, most of her poetry and short writings were written over 20 years ago, but life happened, and her writing had to take a back seat.