Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

Poet, filmmaker, and performer Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is the author of two chapbooks, Blue Mothertongue and Dagoretti Corner and the EP album Introducing Ngwatilo. A Callaloo Fellow twice shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her poems appear in Transition, Johannesburg Review of Books, Obsidian, Wasafiri, The Malahat and elsewhere.

Ngwatilo is a graduate of The University of British Columbia’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Her multi-award nominated debut short film Joy’s Garden has screened at over a dozen international festivals, while her forthcoming short is a trilingual magical realism drama. In all her work, Ngwatilo works to forge paths to joy and freedom.