Biography

Kayo Chingonyi

Kayo Chingonyi  came to live in the UK from Zambia in 1993. His first full collection of poems Kumukanda was published by Chatto in 2017 and won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second A Blood Condition was published in 2021. He has been a judge in the Foyle Young Poets awards and is a Fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry.

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