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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 ReviewThe Trans-AfricanBBC Radio 4, Wasafiri MagazineDRR, 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.