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 Writing Scholarship, and in 2022 her story "Boyi" was awarded the inaugural 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.

Awards

 * Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
 * The Goethe-Institut's Afro Young Adults Fiction Competition (shortlisted)
 * Writivism Short Story Prize (shortlisted)
 * African Land Policy Centre Story Prize (awarded)