Okwiri Oduor

Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story "My Father's Head " won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta , The New Inquiry , Kwani , and elsewhere. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and Art Omi and a visiting writer at the Lannan Center. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Germany.

Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story "My Father's Head " won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta , The New Inquiry , Kwani , and elsewhere. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and Art Omi and a visiting writer at the Lannan Center. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Germany. See less