Mukethe Kawinzi is a transsexual goatherder with a penchant for tomfoolery.

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd, stockman, and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livestock handling, and regenerative grazing. He is the author of touching grass (Porkbelly Press), Koans to a Young Cowboi (Bottlecap Press), rut (Ghost City Press Summer Series), and saanens, nubians, one lamancha (Winner, Quarterly West Chapbook Contest). He is the winner of the inaugural ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers.

His writing illuminates the pathos and splendor of the natural world, race in rural spaces, the peculiar wit of livestock animals, and the pains and pleasures of physical labor. His practice weaves blackness and queerness into the agrarian while giving visibility to contemporary farmwork with a sense of play and an embodied relation to the historical injustice of enslavement in America. He has been a featured reader at San Francisco's Litquake Festival, Poetry in the Parks, Flor y Canto, and the Bay Area Book Festival; his zines have been presented at San Francisco Zine Fest, Brooklyn Zine Fest, and the Miami Zine Fair.

Mukethe herds goats on the open range on an 1800-acre regenerative ranch in San Mateo county. He currently works with a herd of 300 Spanish cashmere range goats to restore native coastal prairie, rehabilitate degraded soils, and mitigate the effects of climate change on California grasslands.