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 pop matters, protean magazine, peach magazine, and the ana, among others. 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