Shingai Njeri Kagunda (she/they)

Coordinator, Reparations Program

Shingai is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown. Shingai’s work has been featured in the Best American Sci-fi and Fantasy 2020, Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. They have work in or upcoming in Omenana, Fantasy magazine, FracturedLit, Khoreo, Africa Risen, and Uncanny Magazine. Their debut novella & This is How to Stay Alive was published by Neon Hemlock Press in October 2021 and won the Ignyte Award for best novella in 2022. She is the co-editor of Podcastle Magazine a Hugo nominated zine, and the co-founder of Voodoonauts, a Black Speculative fiction summer workshop. Shingai is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student, and a lover of all things soft and Black.