NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of the novel, We Need New Names. Her stories have won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and been shortlisted for the 2009 South African PEN Studzinski Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Boston Review, Newsweek, Callaloo, and the Warwick Review. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work was recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.