Mwanabibi Sikamo

Mwanabibi Sikamo is a Zambian storyteller and award-winning filmmaker. She writes about the lived African experience and the confluence of culture, creativity and indigenous spirituality. Her essays play with form and function and have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Weganda Review, The Republic, Brink and elsewhere. A Pushcart-nominated essayist, she was a finalist for the Sevhage Literary Prize for Creative Nonfiction (2023), The Porter House Review Editors Prize for Nonfiction (2025) and a runner up for the Ubwali Hope Prize (2025).