Anesu Mukombiwa is a Zimbabwean-born writer, who holds a BA in English from Skidmore College, where she received the Palamountain and Samantha Sasenarine Awards for Creative Nonfiction. Her work appears most recently in Speculative Nonfiction (Issue 8).
While at MacDowell Mukombiwa, Harare, Zimbabwe, worked on the manuscript for her debut memoir, an experimental prose project that traces a life lived across Zimbabwe, Greece, the United States, and China through embodied memory and sensory experience. During her residency, she completed the first draft of the American chapters, which were her primary focus in residence.