Doreen Baingana
Author · 2 books
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer. She has published fiction, essays, articles, children’s stories and plays. Her short-story collection “Tropical Fish” received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and a Commonwealth Prize; she was also nominated for the Caine Prize three times. Baingana worked for ten years at the radio service Voice of America, served as managing editor of the Kenyan publisher Storymoja and chaired Femrite. She has also taught creative writing in various African countries.