About me
Wangeci Gitau (she/they) is a Kenyan-born writer, activist, and teacher from the Gikūyū tribe living in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Wangeci lives by Audre Lorde’s words, “your silence will not protect you.” Her writing and activism center around experiences taking up space in the global west as an immigrant queer African femme. She is the author of poetry collections “there’s the truth then there are other things” (2019) and “i'm not allowed to explain (only foreshadow and reminisce)” (2021). In 2022, she was featured on the show “Stories from the Stage” which aired on WorldChannel and PBS discussing her experience during the 2018 Merrimack gas explosions. Wangeci is the co-founder & prose editor at Exposed Brick Literary Magazine and was a public school teacher for seven years. She has a Masters in Literary Arts from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. In her spare time, Wangeci works at a bookstore while polishing her first novel.
