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Linda Musita (October, 1981) is a 37 year old writer, lawyer, and editor from Kenya. She has a unique style of writing that is mainly inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. She has published numerous writings, including “Picket Fences,” “Canibales,” “Tongue Poison,” and many more. She received her bachelor of laws at Moi University from 2005-2008 and received CLE training at the Kenya School of Law from 2009-2010. She currently works as the head of legal at the Radio Africa Group.

Occupation
Writer, editor, and lawyer

Career
Head of legal at Radio Africa Group from December 2013-Present

Sub editor and legal officer for Star newspaper from May 2013-May 2015

Literary agent at Lesleigh Inc. in Nairobi from December 2011-December 2017

Lawyer at Khaminwa and Khaminwa Advocates from June 2009-October 2011

Member of the Jalada writers collective, a pan-African writers’ collective whose aim is to publish literature by African authors regularly by making it as easy as possible for any member to publish anything or execute any literary project as quickly and effectively as possible.

Awards & Accomplishments
Selected as one of 39 best African writers south of the Sahara under the age of 40, and was published by Bloomsbury UK in the Africa 39 anthology

Early Life
When Linda Musita was younger she was interested in the sciences and wanted to become a dentist however, her teacher told her that she was more of an artsy person, implying that she should pursue a career in the arts field. She began writing at age 14 and her first story was published by Thomas S. Gale in an anthology titled “African Children Speak.” Musita followed her dentistry path through college but, she didn’t have the grades to continue this path and ended up choosing law. In previous year she has worked as a director, editor, and a lawyer. Therefore, she did in fact pursue some art based careers along with law.