Irene Staunton

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Irene Staunton is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, researcher and writer, who has worked in literature and the arts since the 1970s, both in the UK and Zimbabwe. She is co-founder and publisher of Weaver Press in Harare, having previously co-founded Baobab Books. Staunton is the editor of several notable anthologies covering oral history, short stories, and poetry, including ''Mothers of the Revolution: War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women'' (1990), ''Children in our Midst: Voices of Farmworker's Children'' (2000), ''Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe'' (2003), ''Women Writing Zimbabwe'' (2008), ''Writing Free'' (2011), and ''Writing Mystery & Mayhem'' (2015).