Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Biography of Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Yvette Lisa Ndlovuis a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). Her debut short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells, was selected for the 2021 UPK New Poetry & Prose Series.
She is pursuing her MFA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she teaches in the Writing Program. She has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop online and earned her BA at Cornell University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
She received the 2017 Cornell University George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry, selected by Sally Wen Mao, and was the 2020 fiction winner of Columbia Journal’s Womxn History Month Special Issue as well as the 2021 Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest winner, selected by K-Ming Chang. She is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her work has been anthologized in African Risen (Tordotcom Publishing, 2022) and has appeared or is forthcoming in F&SF, Tor.com, FANTASY Magazine, Columbia Journal, Fiyah Literary Magazine, Mermaids Monthly, and Kweli Journal.
Learn more at Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s official website.
