Tjawangwa Dema

Tjawangwa Dema is a Botswana-based poet who was an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her first full-length book The Careless Seamstress (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Her collection an/other pastoral (No Bindings, 2022) with illustrations and an accompanying digital archive was a Finalist for the 2022 Luschei Prize.