The Wonder Game

Jilly(she/her) is from Cumbria. Jilly writes poetry and is an oral historian. She is doing a PhD in English in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law at the University of Teesside. Her project ‘Blabbermouth: An interpretative poetic study of the Kariba Dam’ seeks to reveal the untold realities, stories, myths, and injustices surrounding the construction and life of the Kariba Dam, which was built between 1956 and 1959 in Southern Province, in Zambia. Jilly is also a Literature teacher at International School Lusaka, in Zambia, where she lives with her family and pets.