About Tawanda Mulalu
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (The New Delta Review, 2022) and Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2022). His chapbook Nearness was selected by Brandon Shimoda as the winner of the The New Delta Review 2020-21 Chapbook Contest and published earlier this year. Tawanda’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, New England Review, Paris Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. Tawanda has also served as a Ledecky Fellow for Harvard Magazine and as the first Diversity and Inclusion Chair of the Harvard Advocate. He was recently awarded Denver Quarterly’s 2022 Bin Ramke Prize for Poetry.Browse all poems and texts published on Tawanda Mulalu
