Gloria Mwaniga


Gloria Mwaniga is a Kenyan writer, educator and columnist for the Daily Nation and The EastAfrican. She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Writing Workshop in Nigeria. In 2019, she was awarded a Miles [Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship|Miles Morland Writing Scholarship], and in 2022 her story "Boyi" was awarded the inaugural United Nations [Economic Commission for Africa|African Land Policy Centre] Story Prize. Her story was subsequently included in Finding Ground and other stories: ALPC Anthology of short stories on Land in Africa. Her work has appeared in The Johannesburg Review of Books and The White Review.

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