Susan Kiguli

Born in Uganda, she is an academic and poet. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Leeds (UK), sponsored by the Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, is an Associate Professor and has served as Head of the Department of Literature at Makerere University, Uganda. She was the 2011 African Studies Association Presidential Fellow, which gave her an opportunity to read her poetry at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, in November 2011. The former chairperson of FEMRITE-Uganda Women Writers’ Association, she currently serves on the Advisory Board for the African Writers Trust. She was the chief convener for both the second Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference, August 2015, and “Celebrating Ugandan Writing: Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino at 50”, held in March 2016 at Makerere University. She is the author of The African Saga (1998), Home Floats in a Distance/Zuhause Treibt in der Ferne (Gedichte) (2012), a bilingual book in English and German and Weeping Land/ Terre Che Piangono (2023), also a bilingual book in English and Italian.