Natasha Omokhodion Kalulu-Banda

Natasha Omokhodion Kalulu-Banda is a Zambian who lives in Lusaka. She is also of Nigerian and Jamaican heritage. Her short stories have been featured in various pan-African publications, including Short Story Day Africa 2018 for “Door of No Return”, which has been translated into Portuguese for Brazilian Journal Periferias. Her first book No Be From Hia was selected as a Graywolf Africa Press finalist in 2019. After initial success in Zambia, it was acquired by South African publisher Black Bird Books. In 2020, she participated in the inaugural online festival Afro Lit Sans Frontieres in which she interviewed authors such as Leila Aboulela, Ayobami Adebayo and Tsitsi Dangarembga. She is an alumni of Curtis Brown Creative’s inaugural Breakthrough Course for Black Writers.