ABOUT

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

In her studio, she works across literary writing, text based art, cultural research and curation. She uses language as both material and subject. She is drawn to the human condition and to what is hidden, overlooked, forgotten, misremembered, elusive, obscured, unexpected, untranslated, or difficult to articulate. She interprets and gives form to these things through fiction, essays, text based art, cultural references and various curated works.

Her work draws on her African heritage and Diasporic experiences in dialogue with the cultures and places that have shaped her global life and worldviews. She explores what happens when we inhabit, inherit, encounter and make meaning from multiple cultural worlds.

She lives and works in the Washington DC area.

For a comprehensive bio, please visit lynettesifiso.com