Tsitsi Jaji was born at Nyadire Mission and raised in Harare. After completing her A-levels on a 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.

Many of her poems are inspired by music and the experience of living in the diaspora. Jaji’s collection, Beating the Graves, was publ...