TIMWA LIPENGA is a lecturer in French at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College. She has a PhD (French) from the University of Aberdeen. Before becoming a lecturer, she was a features writer and sub-editor for the Nation Publications. Two of her stories, 'Swimming Partners' and 'Duty' have been published in African Road: New Writing from Southern African (PEN South Africa, 2006) and in The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things: the Caine Prize for African Writing 2016 (Interlink Books, 2016). Lipenga is also director of Makewana's Daughters, a forum that encourages Malawian women to write short stories and poems.
