Makeda Braithwaite serves as an editor at the University of Guyana Press and as a Submissions Editor for Uncanny Magazine. She won third prize in best fiction for the 2022 Guyana Prize for Literature Awards for her manuscript, An Anthology of Shivers. Her chapbook Go Fish: Go In De Pack (Bamboo Talk Press: 2024) was one of two shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for best first book of poetry (2023). Makeda’s work has appeared in Fiyah Literary Magazine, blueii magazine, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and anthologies from Brigids Gate Press and MVmedia, with upcoming in Eunoia Review, Luna Luna Magazine, and Dirty Magick Magazine. 

                           MORNINGSTAR

Arise
           star of the East
                          yellow burn upon my cheek
                                        warm my lips.

See if I say
               the murmurs of
                                  rising love.
                                               See if I sing
                                                              your ballads, well.
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