Tsitsi Jaji

Tsitsi Jaji is the author of two books of poetry, Mother Tongues (2019, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize) and Beating the Graves (2017) as well as a chapbook, Carnaval published in the first volume of New Generation African Poets by the African Poetry Book Fund. Jaji was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and moved to the U.S. to study classical piano and literature. Her poems often evoke music, the sacred, migrancy, and ecological crisis. She is an associate professor at Duke University, USA and the author of a scholarly book, Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford, 2014).