Otonyia Juliane Okot Bitek

Otonyia Juliane Okot Bitek is a Ugandan-Canadian author and scholar. Her debut novel, *We, the Kindling*, published in German as *Der einzige Stern am Himmel*, was longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize and nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her academic fields at Queen’s University in Kingston include Black Studies, Gender Studies and Creative Writing.