Philani A. Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born creative artist whose work spans literature, film and theatre. His work has been published in at least fifteen countries, some in translation in countries such as Brazil and Sweden. Since 2016, he has held a world record in the Shakespearean sonnet form, as well as over a dozen international award nominations for his literary work, including two for the African Writer's Awards (prose and drama) and most recently the 2022 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition. He is the author of four award-winning books of poetry and the recipient of the 2016 National Arts Merit Award (Zimbabwe) for Spoken Word Poetry.