Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). She is pursuing her MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches in the Writing Program. She will be teaching at Clarion West Writers Workshop in the Fall 2020 and has taught at the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. She earned her BA at Cornell University and was a finalist for a Tin House Young Adult Writer of Color Scholarship in Fall 2019. She was the 2020 fiction winner of Columbia Journal’s Womxn History Month Special Issue and is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her work has been anthologized in the Voices of African Women Journal and Tor.com and FIYAH Literary Magazine’s Breathe FIYAH anthology. She received the 2017 Cornell University George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry selected by Sally Wen Mao and is a 2020 New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship recipient. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Journal, FIYAH, The Huffington Post, Jellyfish Review, and Kalahari Review.
