Pacifique Irankunda

Pacifique Irankunda is the author of “The Tears Of A Man Flow Inward”. He was born in Burundi, a small country in East Africa. He came to America at the age of nineteen as a scholarship student at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. His first published work, “Playing at Violence," appeared in The American Scholar and won a Pushcart Prize. Irankunda was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2017. He graduated from Williams College with a degree in psychology and political science. He lives in Brooklyn.

As a resident, Irankunda will continue to develop his non-fiction writing.