Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda

Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda’s short stories have 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, and Mozambique’s Involção e Outros Contos Para um Mundo em Crise.

Her book No Be From Hia was selected as a Graywolf Africa Press finalist in 2019. It was acquired by South African publisher Black Bird Books after initial success in Zambia.

In 2020, she participated in the inaugural online festival Afro Lit Sans Frontieres in which she interviewed women 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, and a Creative Writing Master of Arts candidate at Kingston University London. She was a judge for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2022.