Ndinda Kioko is a writer and filmmaker with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Oregon. Her work has appeared on several platforms and publications including The Black Warrior Review, The Trans-African, BBC Radio 4, Wasafiri Magazine, DRR, and Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. She has written and produced two TV shows for South African pay television channel M-Net.
She is a winner of the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and the Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize. From 2018-2020, she was an Olive B. O’Connor Fiction Fellow and a visiting assistant professor at Colgate University.
She has been awarded fellowships and residencies by Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Lighthouse Works.
Ndinda is currently a story editor at Global Press Journal and a writing mentor for Aspen New Voices Fellowship.