Chioniso Tsikisayi is a writer, performer, poet and playwright from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe whose primary mediums of expression are through spoken word, music, dance and storytelling. She was runner up for the 65th Kenya Poetry Slam Africa Contest. Her work has been featured in Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine, The Kalahari Review, Ipikai Poetry Journal, Agbowó art, AFREADA, Intwasa Short Stories Volume Two and Imbiza Journal for African Writing. In 2022, her debut play, A Woman Has Two Mouths was shortlisted for the African Women Playwrights Network Festival of Plays held in Accra, Ghana. She won the Canopus Award 2023 for excellence in interstellar writing in the Original Local Short Form Fiction Category for her short story Gumbojena. She participated in the All-African Women Poetry Festival 2023 and has been a featured act for Mizani Open Mic curated by Cre8ive Spills. She is currently a creative writing participant in the JIAS Creative Writing Workshop.
