Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian storyteller. She has an MFA from Hamline University, an LL.M. from the University of Minnesota (twin cities) and an LL.B. from Cavendish University Zambia. Until 2019, she practised law in Zambia. She is the author of The Mourning Bird (Jacana Media) and unmarked graves (Tusculum University Press). She is the winner of the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award (2019), the Kalemba Short Story Prize (2019), the Writer of Color Merit Scholarship (2020 - 2023), the Deborah Keenan Poetry Scholarship (2021), the Jacobson Scholarship (2021) and the Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize (2022). Her work has appeared on Brittle Paper's Top 15 Debut Books of 2019 and shortlists for the; Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Raz- Shumaker Book Prize, Minnesota Author Project, Bristol Short Story Prize, Nobrow Short Story Prize, Bush Fellowship, Miles Morland Scholarship, & Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She's been anthologized on Netflix and in various journals, including adda and Overland. When she isn't writing, Mubanga works as the fiction editor at Doek! and a mentor at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.