Birukti Tsige is an Ethiopian-American writer, born in Addis Ababa and now residing in Malden, Massachusetts. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in Neuroscience and a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She's interned at Partners in Health in Boston, Wellness Africa Foundation in Nigeria, and was funded by Harvard's Center for African Studies to carry out school tours in Tanzania to encourage girls to join STEM fields. Outside of class, Birukti served as vice president of Harvard African Student Association, logistics chair of First Year Retreat and Experience, and tour guide at Harvard Visitor Center. Outside of Harvard, Birukti remains involved in her community as director at her church and activist in her city. She's been recognized at the local level with public service awards, at the state level as Black Excellence on the Hill honoree, and at the national level as a U.S. Presidential Scholar. Above all, Birukti considers herself a novelist. She’s written since her early teens, has completed eleven novels, and is now represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She’s concerned with publishing’s lack of diversity, which she works to mitigate as a book blogger, focusing her content on promoting BIPOC authors. She was among the four awardees for the 2023 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. At Cambridge, Birukti will pursue a MSt in Creative Writing, and work on her dissertation novel set in Ethiopia's ancient kingdom of Axum.
