Okwiri Oduor

Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. At the age of twenty-five her short story “My Father’s Head” won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Later that year she was named on the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of thirty-nine African writers under forty who would define trends in African Literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The New Inquiry, Kwani, and elsewhere. She has been a fellow at MacDowell Colony fellow and Art Omi and a visiting writer at the Lannan Center. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Germany.