About

Jedidiah Mugarura is a storyteller descended from the people of Nkore. Their storytelling seeks to find and reimagine the missing vowels to the songs we once sang before colonial violence, to project a future of agency and possibility for those still negotiating their bodies in empire.

Their poetry has appeared in Brittle Paper, Humber Literary Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and Ampersand Review. You can read their prose in issue 5 of Lolwe and issues 133 and 136 of Transition.

Mugarura’s poetry chapbook, ‘Waragi,’ was published in November 2018. ‘Tomorrow Never Came,‘ a play they wrote to critique fascism and the current Ugandan authoritarian government, was staged by the National Queer Theater in New York in June 2025. Their debut full-length poetry book, ‘Nyamuteza,‘ is forthcoming with University of Nebraska Press through the African Poetry Book Series in Fall 2026.