Zaza Muchemwa
Zaza Muchemwa authored the short story, Dance with yesterday and the plays, The IVth interrogation, Numbers and A Westerly Wind. Her poetry has been published on the Pen International Website, Badilisha Poetry Xchange, in Zimbabwean Newspapers and included in the Zimbabwean Women Poetry Anthology by Carnelian Heart Publishing, ‘Tesserae’, Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights Anthology, ‘All Protocols Observed’ and Cyphers Poetry Anthology Volume 87. She has written for Index on Censorship Magazine, Povo Magazine, MUD Journal and other publications. Zaza is an award-winning theatre director and producer, directing several productions including The Incident by Joakim Daun which won the 2018 NAMA Award for outstanding theatre production, and How are you really? by Chiedza Rwodzi, which won a NAMA award for outstanding theatrical production and a 2022 NAMA Award for outstanding director. She is director of a series of plays, We Are Us by Vaviri Creative, which had a successful run at Kampala International Theatre Festival 2023. Zaza is the Associate Artistic Director for Almasi Collaborative Arts. She is a 2022 Honorary Fellow in Writing with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.