Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Canada. She was a 2022 recipient of the Morland African Writing Scholarship. Her work has previously appeared in The Baltimore Review, Bacopa Literary Review, Canthius, Humber Literary Review, Tincture Journal, and Apogee. She has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed 2nd in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming.
Chido graduated with a Ph.D. in Information from the Faculty of Information and at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexuality Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto in 2023. Her research fields are critical archival studies, queer African studies, and postcolonial studies. Her dissertation “Nation, Narrative and Archive: In Search of Queer Histories in Zimbabwe,” is a dissertation about the stories we tell about each other and how our archives shape what stories are possible. By tracing the myriad ways queer Zimbabweans engage in social negotiations of identity, and the stories they tell, Chido theorized how queer people are defining non-normative sexualities in Zimbabwe.
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