About

Lynette Sifiso is a writer, visual artist, researcher, and cultural curator. She holds an MFA (Writing) from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Master’s in Conflict Resolution from Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor’s in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of South Africa.

Her body of work is interdisciplinary and concerns itself with creating spaces for dialogue between people, places, and things. Her studio is rooted in African-Diasporic histories and her global worldviews, and explores themes of memory, place, and belonging through lyric, fragmented, and hybrid forms.

In her writing practice, she works across creative nonfiction, fiction, and prose poetry. She is currently writing her first collection of essays and a book of modern folktales. 

Her visual art is an extension of her writing, and she works with text-based art, asemic writing, collage, and assemblage.

She lives and works between the US and Zimbabwe.