About me
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. His first book, Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die was selected by Susan Stewart for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and received the 2023 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry; it was also listed as a best poetry book of 2022 by The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and was a finalist for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Tawanda’s poems have appeared in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. His writing has been supported by Brooklyn Poets, the Community of Writers, the New York State Summer Writers Institute and Tin House Books. He is presently a fellow at The Michener Center for Writers and served as a judge for the 2023 Poetry Society of America annual awards.
