Gloria Mwaniga Minage Odary
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Gloria Mwaniga Odary is a writer and educator from Kenya currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Memphis. She also teaches English Composition to Freshmen at the same university. Her writing has won the 2024 Georgia Review Prose Prize, the 2024 Isele Magazine Nonfiction Prize, the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship and the African Land Policy Centre Story Prize. Gloria was longlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Goethe Insitut’s AfroYoungAdult prize. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Georgia Review, Mukana Press, Isele Magazine, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The White Review, The Writivism Anthology and elsewhere. She has published book reviews and author interviews in The East African and Nation newspapers.