Michelle K. Angwenyi

Michelle K. Angwenyi is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya. Her current literary engagements lie at the intersection of her background in biology and her explorations of time and memory. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel Africa International Poetry Prize, and for the 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize. Michelle has a chapbook, Grey Latitudes, which is out now from the African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books.
before there were photographs, there were dreams

“years and years later, the reconciliation, it happens in a dream. We stand face to face for the first time – maybe the first time ever – and in her hand, palm open to the sky, are rings: one for each promise made, unkept, but here again, a complete circle, glimmering in that selfsame sunshine from years ago.”

September 9, 2020