Author Reading
with
Mamle Kabu
Katleho Kano Shoro
& Amy Shimshon-Santo
Friday, March 25, 2022, 7:00 pm
(Space limited. Save your spot)
258 E. Girard Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125
(267) 241-2617
About This Event
Join us for an intimate reading of new literary works by Mamle Kabu, Katleho Kano Shoro, and Amy Shimshon-Santo for Women’s Herstory Month. Presented in association with Writers Project Ghana & CREO Changemakers
Authors Biographies
Mamle Kabu, a writer of Ghanaian and German parentage, was born in Ghana, and raised in Ghana and the UK. She has studied Modern Languages, Latin American Studies and Creative Writing, and has been resident in Ghana since the early nineties, working as a researcher in social development, writing fiction and poetry, and helping develop platforms for writers in Ghana. Her short stories have been published in various anthologies and journals in Africa, the UK and the US. Anthologies include Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience (W.W. Norton, 2006) and African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010). In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her story The End of Skill. She has recently completed a novel with the same title. She spent the latter half of 2014 as an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa and then as a writer-in-residence at the City of Asylum, Pittsburgh. Mamle is a director of the Writers Project of Ghana (WPG) and co-editor of two WPG anthologies, The Sea has drowned the Fish (2018), and Resilience (2021).
Katleho Kano Shoro is a South African-born artist-scholar who has recently moved to Philadelphia to pursue a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Amongst other roles, she is a poet, research consultant and facilitator within creative and education spaces. She is the author of the collection of poems, Serurubele, and has contributed poems to anthologies and journals like Years of Fire and Ash (2021), Brittle Paper, New Coin and Colour Me Melanin (2019). Most recently her work has been featured in the multimodal book: Bodies of Knowledge: Children and Childhoods in Health and Affliction. She is the co-editor of The Constant Reader: Poetry Reviews by Poets in South Africa (2021); the themed journal issue “Decolonisation In/And Poetry” under Education as Change (UNISA Press, 2020); and the exhibition-linked Overtime: representations, values and imagined futures of ‘classical African Art (Wits, 2017).
Amy Shimshon-Santo is the author of Catastrophic Molting (Flowersong Press), Even the Milky Way is Undocumented (Unsolicited Press), and the chapbook Endless Bowls of Sky (Placeholder Press). She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes in poetry and creative nonfiction, a Rainbow Reads Award and Best of the Net in poetry. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, ArtPlace America, Zócalo Public Square, Entropy, Tilt West, Boom CA, Yes Poetry, GeoHumanities, Routledge, SAGE, UC Press, SUNY Press, Public, and more. She has edited two books amplifying community voices: Et Al (Illinois Open Publishing Network, 2022), and Arts = Education (UC Press, 2010). Her teaching career has spanned research universities, community centers, K-12 schools, arts organizations, and spaces of incarceration.