Tsahai Makeda is a Jamaican-American writer who has been capturing her thoughts and putting them to paper since childhood. She writes about the human experience and one’s sense of self in the world. When not writing, she is reading or knitting. She earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was the Managing Editor for LUMINA Journal 2017-2018. She has received support for her work from Anaphora Arts Publishing Program, The Center for Black Fiction Wild Seed Writers Retreat, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She was a selected fellow for the Anaphora Arts Emerging Critics Program 2023 and SAFTA Residency 2024.

She received The Caribbean Writer’s 2023 Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Best Short Fiction for her short story, ‘For Generations’.

Her work appears and is forthcoming in Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Women Who Submit, Epiphany, Breadcrumbs, REWRITE London, The Caribbean Writer-Volume 37, The Caribbean Writer-Volume 39 and Prairie Schooner. She lives at the foot of the Catskills where she writes and reads, then writes some more.