Banchiwosen Woldeyesus (she/her) is a black woman, a teacher, short fiction, and nonfiction writer. She was born in 1980 and raised in Addis Ababa. Her work appears on The/Temz/Review. And is forthcoming on midnight & indigo. She has published 400+ posts and essays on her blog, Banchi Inspirations, since mid-2018. She publishes essays, flash stories, and curated reads on This Precious Dark Skin, her newsletter on Substack. She’s a Submissions Reader for Narratively. She lives in Addis Ababa where she teaches.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
These Things We Not Saying
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Banchiwosen Woldeyesus
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