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Wangeci Gitau (she/they) is a Kenyan-born writer, painter, designer, teacher, and activist from the Kikuyu tribe living in Lawrence, Massachusetts. As an artist, Wangeci lives by Audre Lorde’s words, “your silence will not protect you.” Her writing and activism center around her experiences taking up space on American soil as an immigrant queer African femme. She is the author of poetry collections “there’s the truth then there are other things” (2019) and “i'm not allowed to explain (only foreshadow and reminisce)” (2021). In 2022, she was featured on the show “Stories from the Stage” which aired on WorldChannel and PBS. Wangeci is the co-founder & prose editor at Exposed Brick Literary Magazine and a former public school teacher. In her spare time, Wangeci is working on a novel. She has her Masters in Literary Arts from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Support their work at wangecigitau.com.

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Wangeci Gitau (she/they) is a Kenyan-born writer, painter, designer, teacher, and activist from the Kikuyu tribe living in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her writing and activism center around her experiences taking up space on American soil as an immigrant queer African femme. Support their work at wangecigitau.com.