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Shingai Njeri Kagunda (She/her) is an Afrofuturist freedom dreamer, Swahili sea lover, and Femme Storyteller hailing from Nairobi, Kenya. She is currently pursuing a Literary Arts MFA at Brown University. Shingai's work has appeared or will appear in Omenana, The Elephant, FANTASY magazine, and Fractured Lit. She has been selected as a candidate for the Clarion UCSD Class of 2020/2021. #clarionghostclass.
She is also the co-founder of Voodoonauts: an afrofuturist collective for black writers.
Shingai despises exceptionalism as a politic, is a strong believer that magic exists in the shared space between memory and imagination, & has a personal vendetta against linear conceptualizations of time.