inkato'swords

about

hey, thanks for stopping by. my name is kato bisase, i’m a Ugandan-american creative nonfiction writer, poet and essayist based in northern california. my work explores a range of tensions, among them: human depth in a cursory world, the african experience in the american context, the Black experience in non-Black spaces, and the beautiful anxieties conceived inside all of them. you can find some of my scribbled musings in peach magazine, the ana, pop matters, and transfer magazine. i also earned my ma in creative writing at san francisco state university. .

work

Entangled in cool

Sweaty Roses for Da Band: Revisiting Making The Band 2, twenty years later