Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing
EDITORYvonne Vera was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gained her Ph.D. from York University in Canada, and  was the Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. Yvonne Vera died at age 40 in 2005    Yvonne Vera’s  Without a NameandUnder the Tongueboth won first prize in the Zimbabwe Publishers Literary Awards of 1995 and 1997 respectively.Under the Tonguewon the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region). Yvonne Vera won the Swedish literary award The Voice of Africa 1999.