Kayo Chingonyi

1987–

Kayo Chingonyi is a Zambian-born British poet, born in 1987, who moved to the UK at the age of six. He read English literature at the University of Sheffield and took an MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. He won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012 and was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2015. He has been a Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, poetry editor of The White Review and assistant professor of creative writing at Durham University. Both his collections, Kumukanda (2017) and A Blood Condition (2021), were shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award; Kumukanda won the Dylan Thomas Prize.

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