Welcome to my blog!

My name is Banchiwosen Woldeyesus. Author of the newsletter This Precious Dark Skin. I’m a black woman, a teacher, short fiction and nonfiction writer.  Since mid-2018, I’ve published 400+ articles. I own Black Women Write space on quora. Also on LinkedIn. Twitter.

If you need a place to start:

Personal Essays:

• ‘I’ve Selected a Wife for You,’ My Grandfather Was Told. He Married Her Sister.

• ‘I Wish My Children Were Still Living Inside My Uterus,’

• Empty Platitudes

• How I Learned To Avoid Storytelling That Is “Performative for a White Readership”

• One Die-Hard Reader’s All-Time Favorite Narratively Stories

Short Fiction:

• When the Shooting Stops

• When Your White Bosses Are Not That Into You

• How to Talk to Someone Who’s Obsessed With the Color of Your Skin

• Adera

Ethiopia:

• Buna Ceremony In Ethiopia