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Kayo Chingonyi was born on 1987 in Zambia, is a Zambian-British poet and editor (born 1987). Discover Kayo Chingonyi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?
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1987 |
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Kayo Chingonyi Height, Weight & Measurements
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Kayo Chingonyi Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Kayo Chingonyi worth at the age of 37 years old? Kayo Chingonyi’s income source is mostly from being a successful poet. He is from Zambia. We have estimated Kayo Chingonyi's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition. He has also published two pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic, 2016).
He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode.
Chingonyi has won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize and Somerset Maugham Award.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six.
He has a BA degree in English literature from the University of Sheffield and an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Chinyongi was in the first generation of The Complete Works mentoring programme.
The scheme (2007–2017) was directed by Dr Natalie Teitler, during which time thirty poets were mentored.
He won a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012.
In 2015, he was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Chingonyi was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.
He then went on to be assistant professor of creative writing at Durham University.
He is the founding editor of The Poetics of Grime, poetry editor for The White Review and has edited issues of Magma Poetry and Poetry Review.
Chingonyi was mentored on The Complete Works poets of colour mentoring scheme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo to redress representational invisibility.
Chingonyi's collection, Kumukanda (Vintage Publishing, 2017) won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award.
Kumukanda was also shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize, the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Jhalak Prize.
His second collection, A Blood Condition, was published in 2021 by Vintage Publishing.
Chingonyi's work has been published in several anthologies, including The Best British Poetry, The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts, The Emma Press Anthology of Political Poems, Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poetry, and Ten: The New Wave.
His essays, poems and reviews have been featured in online and print publications.
