Wangeci Wambui Gitau is a queer Gikuyu writer and cultural worker whose work centers the intersections of Blackness, Indigeneity, and displacement. Raised in Lawrence, MA and rooted in Kenyan traditions, she writes to preserve memory, affirm ancestral knowledge, and imagine liberated futures. Wangeci is the author of two poetry collections, there’s the truth and there’s other things (2019) and i’m not allowed to explain (only foreshadow and reminisce) (2021) and co-founder of Exposed Brick Literary Magazine, a community arts publication uplifting voices of the Global Majority.

 

Her writing appears in HarperCollins’ Here to Stay anthology (2024) and Bread Loaf Journal, and her creative practice spans poetry, theater, visual art, and education. Whether performing, teaching, or curating, Wangeci’s work honors culture as a site of resistance and rebirth. She has a Masters in Literary Arts from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. In her spare time, Wangeci is working on a novel.