I was born in the remote east­ern high­lands dis­trict of Nyan­ga, in Map­fu­ri­ra vil­lage, grew up there and did my pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary, and high school in this area. Left Nyan­ga for Chi­tung­wiza city in 1994, and I start­ed explor­ing writ­ing that year, when I was bare­ly twen­ty. I have also worked in the sales and mar­ket­ing field for over 8 years, and have a grad­u­ate diplo­ma in mar­ket­ing (Grad­Saim). I have stayed in South Africa for two and half years, but I am now back in Zim­bab­we, where I stay in Chi­tung­wiza city.  My first book to be pub­lished, Voic­es from exile, a col­lec­tion of poet­ry on Zimbabwe’s polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion and exile in South Africa was pub­lished by Lap­wing pub­li­ca­tions, North­ern Ire­land in 2010. KEYS IN THE RIVER: Notes from a Mod­ern Chimuren­ga, a nov­el of inter­linked sto­ries that deals with life in mod­ern day Zimbabwe’s soul was pub­lished by Savant books and pub­li­ca­tions, USA 2012. A book of cre­ative non-fic­tion pieces, THE BLAME GAME, will be pub­lished by Lan­gaa RPCIG( Cameroon 2013), a fol­low up nov­el to KEYS IN THE RIVER, ten­ta­tive­ly enti­tled, THE RIVER RUNS DRY will be pub­lished by Savant books and pub­li­ca­tions USA (2013), a nov­el enti­tled, A DARK ENERGY will be pub­lished by Aig­nos pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny( USA, 2013). Poet­ry books: Rev­o­lu­tion, Log­book writ­ten by a drifter, and Voic­es from exile, were both short list­ed by the Erbec­ce press poet­ry prize in 2012, 2011, and 2009 respec­tive­ly, anoth­er poet­ry book enti­tled Pearls of aware­ness was short list­ed for the Twoz cre­ations chap­book prize (2012). I was nom­i­nat­ed for the Push­cart twice, 2008, 2010, com­mend­ed for the Dal­ro prize 2008, I was nom­i­nat­ed and attend­ed Caine African writ­ing work­shop, 2012. Pub­lished over  200 pieces of short sto­ries, essays, mem­oirs, poems and visu­al art in over 100 mag­a­zines, jour­nals, and antholo­gies in the fol­low­ing coun­tries,  the USA , UK , Cana­da , South Africa, Zim­bab­we, India , Mex­i­co, Kenya, Cameroon, Italy , Ghana, Ugan­da, France , Zam­bia, Nige­ria, Spain , Roma­nia, Cyprus, Aus­tralia and New Zealand. 

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