Theresa Sylvester is a Zambian writer based in Western Australia. She is a McCormack Writing Center scholar (formerly Tin House.) She was a 2023 Faber scholarship recipient, and is an alumna of Stuyvesant Writing workshop where she studied under Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Her stories have been published by Shenandoah, Black Warrior Review, Midnight & Indigo and in Rockingham Writer’s Center Anthology.

She is the winner of the 2024 Fractured Lit Micro Prize.

In 2022, her short story Fracas Street won the Quarterly West Prose Contest, and another of her stories, Blank Speech Bubbles won the Black Fox Writing Contest.

She was a finalist for The Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction and for a Writing Fellowship at A Public Space. She was also longlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Theresa is building a short story collection which has themes of loss, migration, and all the messy things people go through in life.

Her novel-in-progress follows a Zambian family and their experiences across generations.

Perth is her home, but Lusaka will always have Theresa’s heart.