Tsitsi Ella Jaji

Tsitsi Jaji was born at Nyadire Mission in 1976, and raised in Harare. After completing her A-levels on scholarship at Arundel she moved to the U.S. to study piano and literature at Oberlin College. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University and is now an assistant professor of English at University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.

Many of her poems are inspired by music and the experience of living in the diaspora. In addition to poetry she writes literary criticism, and her scholarly book Africa in Stereo will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.