Ashuntantang started writing publications when she was in secondary school but never thought of writing as a career because in her country of Cameroon, where she grew up, writing was not presented as a career. She received a B.A in English with a minor in Theater Arts from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon with a Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, a Masters in English from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. in English/African Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[4]
She has published more than four books of poetry and contributed to 13 volumes of international poetry anthologies as well as one short story anthology which include Landscaping Postcoloniality: The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature (2009) and three poetry collections, Their Champagne Party will End: Poems in Honor of Bate Besong, co-edited (2008), A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010) and Beautiful Fire (2018).[5] Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Bangla, Arabic and Romanian.[6]
