Musaemura Bonas Zimunya

Poet, fiction writer, and editor Musaemura Zimunya was born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, and earned an MA at the University of Kent in England. Zimunya writes in both English and Shona; his poetry collections in English include Selected Poems (1995), Country Dawns and City Lights (1985), Kingfisher, Jikinya, and Other Poems (1982), and Thought Tracks (1982). Collections in Shona include Chakarira Chindunduma (Poems on the War, 1985). Zimunya is also the author of the short story collection Nightshift (1993) and the critical work Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe (1982). With Mudereri Kadhani, he coedited the anthology And Now the Poets Speak (1981) and translated, with Charles Mungoshi, the fiction anthology Mazambuko (2011). He taught at the University of Zimbabwe for many years, and he is currently the Director of Black Studies at Virginia Tech University.