Kayo Chingonyi was born on 1987 and is a Zambian British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition.
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Kayo Chingonyi has published two earlier pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance and The Colour of James Brown's Scream.
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Kayo Chingonyi is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode.
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Kayo Chingonyi was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
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Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six.
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Kayo Chingonyi has a BA degree in English literature from the University of Sheffield and an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Kayo Chingonyi was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.
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Kayo Chingonyi then went on to be assistant professor of creative writing at Durham University.
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Kayo Chingonyi is the founding editor of The Poetics of Grime, poetry editor for The White Review and has edited issues of Magma Poetry and Poetry Review.
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Kayo Chingonyi was mentored on The Complete Works poets of colour mentoring scheme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo to redress representational invisibility.