Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzi is a Zimbabwean-born novelist and essayist. Raised in South Africa, she is the author of These Bones Will Rise Again and Sweet Medicine which won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award. She is the founding editor of Vanguard magazine, a platform for young black women coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa.

A contributing editor to the Johannesburg Review of Books, Panashe Chigumadzi work has featured in titles including The Guardian, The New York Times, Transition, Chimurenga, Washington Post and Die Ziet. These Bones Will Rise Again (Indigo Press, June 2018) is her first book to publish in the UK.