Novelist, poet, literary scholar and essayist 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 political
columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa 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. Editions of Nairobi Heat are forthcoming in Kenya (East
African Publishers) and Nigeria (Cassava Republic Press).
Finding
Sahara, the sequel to Nairobi Heat is forthcoming. Mukoma
will be joining Cornell University in the fall of 2012 as an Assistant Professor of English
specializing in twentieth-century Anglophone African literature.
A former co-editor of Pambazuka
News, 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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