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Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani
Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani has an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In May 2017, she received a doctoral degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her terminal degrees were, in April 2011, preceded by an MA in Media Studies from Nelson Mandela University. When she is not writing or observing one or another social or cultural phenomenon that she knows will end up in one of her stories, she is teaching because that is what English Professors do – they teach and help to shape young and all minds. Her first novel, Buried in the Chest, published in South Africa by Jacana Media, was the winner of the 2024 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Lindani currently lives in Illinois.
