Collection: Shingai Njeri Kaguda

Shingai Njeri Kagunda 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 fiction, essays, and poetry in, or upcoming in Omenana, FANTASY magazine, FracturedLit, khōréō, Africa Risen, Baffling Magazine, LIGHTSPEED and Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, among others. Shingai’s debut novella & This is How to Stay Alive published by Neon Hemlock Press in October 2021 won the Ignyte Award for best novella in 2022. She is the co-editor of Podcastle Magazine and the co-founder of Voodoonauts (an Afrofuturist summer workshop nominated for a community Ignyte Award). Shingai is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student, and a lover of all things soft and Black.