poet, writer, shaman

Born and raised in Cameroon, Clementine E Burnley now lives and works between Scotland and Germany. She earned her joint B.A. (Hons.) in Media Studies and Literature (Glasgow, Scotland) and M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, (Manchester, England).
The themes of her work are (re)migration, diasporic kinship, collective trauma, and collective resilience.  Her art practice has evolved through poetry, audio-visual pieces, stage performance, fiction and essay forms to curating community spaces and relationships.

 Commissions: Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, The Edwin Morgan Foundation, Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with Africa in Motion Film Festival and The Obsidian Foundation

Contributions to: 3hd 2018: System.Lure (HAU, Berlin), Literary Colloquium Berlin, Gutter Magazine, The Poetry Review, The North, Before Them_We Anthology, (Flipped Eye) Icefloe Press Anthology, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Emma Press Second Place Rosette: Anthology of Britain 2020, Parabola Magazine, Erbacce, Bending Genres Anthology, Magma Poetry Magazine, Africa Writes Festival, StAnza Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, Team Angelica Press, The Feminist Wire