With 21 years of age, Shimbo Pastory has been since 2017 a poetry editor for the Writers Space Africa Monthly Literary Magazine, and currently, he is one of the editors of Poetica Poetry Magazine published bimonthly by African Writers Development Trust (AWDT). His poems and Essays have been published in Writers Space Africa, Poetica, The Fountain, and Friends' Magazines, and also The Leader, Kiongozi and Tunmaini Letu Newspapers. Last year he was a distant judge for Daughters Destined for Purpose Poetry (DD4P) Competition in Zimbabwe. He is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy at Spiritan Missionary Seminary, Tanzania, an affiliate to the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). He has published one book, Teens and Schooling (2016). He is fluent in English and Kiswahili and is learning French.