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Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Editor

Tinashe was appointed Editor of Sentinel Literary Quarterly on the 1st of August 2010. He graduated with a First Class degree in English from Midlands State University; became the first African to receive an MA in Creative Writing from Trinity University College in Wales and currently teaching and studying for a PhD in English at the University of Kent at Canterbury in England. He is a former Crossing Borders Creative Writing fellow, an initiative that was supported by the British Council and Lancaster University. In 2007, he attended the Caine Prize for African Writing Workshop at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. He writes across genres and has appeared in the Short Writings from Bulawayo anthologies, Writing Now and Jungfrau and Other Stories: A Caine Prize Anthology as well as in several literary publications in America, Britain, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He has co-edited with David Nettleingham the anthology, State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry, and his pamphlet titled, Harare’s Lonely Eyes, was published in April 2010.

Nnorom Azuonye

Publisher & Managing Editor

Nnorom trained as a Dramatic Artist at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, graduating in 1990, winning the Academic Prize for Best Graduating student in the Department of Dramatic Arts that year. In 1991 he received the Best Poet Award at the Cultural Centre Board, Calabar, Nigeria. Author of Letter to God & Other Poems (2003), The Bridge Selection: Poems for the Road (2005) and Blue Hyacinths (2010: ed. with Geoff Stevens), he founded the Sentinel Poetry Movement in December 2002 and served as Founding Editor of Sentinel Poetry (online) Dec. 2002-Feb 2005, and Dec. 2007-Oct. 2008. He edited Sentinel Poetry Quarterly (Print magazine) from July 2004-December 2005, and edited Sentinel Literary Quarterly from October 2007 to July 2010. He is also the Founder and Publisher of Sentinel Nigeria (www.sentinelnigeria.org) - the online magazine of contemporary Nigerian writing. Nnorom who lives in London with his wife and two children is the Director of Operations and Creative Services at Eastern Light EPM International - an Entertainment, Publishing, Marketing and Web Services company. Eastern Light EPM are the publishers of Nollywood Focus magazine (www.nollywoodfocus.com) which Nnorom edits, and operators of the New African Poetry imprint of which he is the Publishing Director.

N Quentin Woolf

Resident Reviewer

A London-based writer, arts broadcaster and creative writing coach, Quentin chairs several successful critique groups, a book group for young professionals, and teaches creative writing to new writers, as well as running a calendar of literary events.

www.nquentinwoolf.com

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