Andrea Mbarushimana
Best known for her poetry, Andrea has performed on BBC Radio’s The Verb and as a lead poet in the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival 2021. Her poetry has been transformed into a Digi-Poems animation and can be found on the Overhear app. She has performed gigs all over England and in Ireland.
Andrea’s first mixed collection The Africa In My House (Silhouette Press, 2017) was followed by Airshow (Gloucestershire Poetry Society V20 winner, 2019) and The Fatbergs (KFS Press, 2021). With more than ten years’ experience of running creative writing workshops in schools and the community, Andrea has particular experience with refugee and migrant communities and with young people who have a learning disability and/or autism. She is currently working on her first novel.