Novelist, poet, and
literary scholar, Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of Nairobi Heat
(Penguin, SA 2009, Melville House Publishing,
2011), an anthology of poetry titled Hurling Words at Consciousness(AWP, 2006) and is a columnist for Ebony.com and a regular contributor to Kenya Yetu Magazine. He was
shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in
2009. In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Penguin Prize for African Writing for
his novel manuscript, The First and Second Books of Transition. Mukoma holds a PHD in
English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MA in Creative Writing from
Boston University and a BA in English and Political Science from Albright
College. He is an
Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.
Nairobi Heat the
movie, screenplay by David Abramowitz and directed by Oz Scott, is forthcoming. Nairobi Black Star, the sequel to Nairobi Heat is going to be published
by Melville Publishing House (North America), Kwela Books (Southern Africa),
Cassava Republic Press (Western Africa) and East African Educational Publishers
(Eastern Africa) in the Spring of 2013.
A former co-editor ofPambazuka News and political columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, his columns have appeared in the Guardian,International Herald Tribune,
Chimurenga, Los Angeles Times, South African Labour Bulletin, and Business
Daily Africa, and he has been a guest on Democracy Now, Al Jazeera and the BBC
World Service. His essays have appeared in World Literature Review, Black
Commentator, Progressive Magazine and Radical History Review.
His short stories have been published in Wasafiri, African Writing, Kenyon
Review and St. Petersburg Review and his poems in the New York Quarterly,
Mythium, Brick Magazine, Kwani?, and Tin House Magazine amongst other places.
Mukoma
was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Kenya before returning to
the United States for his undergraduate and graduate education. He is currently
based in Norwalk, CT. He is the son of world renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
He
can be reached at: mukomangugi[at]gmail.com. For book or film rights
contact: Watkins/Loomis Agency, P.O. Box 20925,
New York, NY 10025 Tel: 212.532.0080 Fax: 646.383.2449 Email:
assistant@watkinsloomis.com
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