Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian attorney, writer, and editor. She is the author of The Mourning Bird (Jacana), unmarked graves (Tusculum University Press), and Obligations to the Wounded (forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press). She is also the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2024), selected by Angie Cruz; the Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Contest (2022), selected by Carmen Giménez; the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award (2019), and Kalemba Short Story Prize (2019). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Overland, adda, Contemporary Verse 2, on Netflix, and elsewhere. Her creative practice has received support from the Young African Leadership Initiative, the Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellowship, the Hawkinson Scholarship for Peace and Justice, the Africa Institute, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the founding editor of Ubwali Literary Magazine, a current Miles Morland Scholar, and a PhD student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, where she is also an Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) scholar.