Tinashe Mushakavanhu is co-author of a few books, most recently Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats (forthcoming). He is at work on a series of essays about history, memory and black land ownership in Zimbabwe in the 1930s, and a book on Dambudzo Marechera: The Enfant Terrible of African Literature. He is a founding partner with Nontsikelelo Mutiti of Black Chalk & Co, a boutique agency engendering new forms of publishing and creative production. He holds degrees from English, Welsh and Zimbabwean universities.