Esther Karin Mngodo

Esther Karin Mngodo is a Tanzanian writer, poet, translator, editor, and feminist publisher. Winner of
the 2014 Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize, she authored Jinsi ya Kurudi Nyumbani and founded
UMBU, which published women in Swahili. Her work appears in Imbiza, Asymptote, The
Common, and The Hopkins Review.

Radiance is motherhood. Being a single mother has given me eyes that I would never have in any other timeline. I am grateful for the gift of life passed through my womb. Birthing is a form of knowing.