Drunken Boat #13 - Greta Schuler & Mabasa

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Greta Schuler

Greta Schuler is an MFA candidate at American University. Her work has recently appeared in Creative Nonfiction as the winner of the magazine’s 2010 MFA Program-Off Contest. Her short story “Mutare” won the Crab Orchard Review’s 2011 Jack Dyer Fiction Prize and is forthcoming in the journal’s next issue.

Mabasa

Mabasa, Ignatius Tirivangani is a performing poet, novelist and storyteller. He has two published collections of poems in Shona: Tipeiwo Dariro (1993), and Muchinokoro Kunaka (2004) and a satirical novel, Mapenzi (Fools) (1990) which was nominated one of Zimbabwe’s 75 Best Books of the twentieth century by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. His other Shona novel Ndafa Here? (So what?) (2009) also won the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Award for Best Shona novel in 2009. Mabasa writes mainly in Shona and is currently finalising two novels. He has been Storyteller/Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba in 2010. Mabasa works for the British Council in Zimbabwe.