Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo (4 September 1945 – 11 December 2015) [1] was a Malawian writer, poet, editor and teacher.
[2] He was educated at Zomba Catholic Secondary School, then at the University of Malawi where he earned a B.A.
[5] After studying at Leeds, England, Chimombo returned to Malawi to edit the literary bulletin Outlook-lookout.
[6] He was a professor of English at Chancellor College in Malawi and was considered one of the nation's leading writers.
[5][7] In 1988 his Napolo Poems gained him honorable mention for the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.