Frank M. Chipasula, a Malawian poet, editor and fiction writer, is currently an Associate Professor of Black Literature at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, in the USA. He has also taught at Brown and Yale universities as well as St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He earned his BA from the University of Zambia and two MAs in Creative Writing and Afro-American Literature and a PhD in English Literature from Brown and Yale universities. His first book of poems, 'Visions and Reflections' (NECZAM, Lusaka, 1972) is a pioneer work in English by a Malawian poet. Since 1984 he has published 'O Earth, Wait for Me' (Raven Press, Johannesburg, 1984), which received an Honourable Mention in the 1985 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, 'Nightwatcher', 'Nightsong' (Paul Green, Peterborough, 1986), and 'Whispers in the Wings' (Heinemann, Oxford, 1991). He is also the editor of 'When My Brothers Come Home: Poems from Central and Southern Africa (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1985), a major regional anthology cited on the Kwanzaa Honours List (1987) by Dennis Brutus. He is widely published in journals and anthologies in Africa, the USA, Canada, Europe and India.