I returned to the US after four wonderful years in Nairobi with Kwani Trust, the leading literary network and publisher in East and Central Africa. Kwani Trust's flagship publication is our 500+ page literary journal, and I was involved in all stages of the production of the seventh and eighth editions of that annual featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, history, essays, art, design and miscellanea. Writers we've worked with include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NoViolet Bulawayo and Nawal El Saadawi.

The Yale Publishing Course for mid- and senior-level professionals awarded me a partial scholarship to attend. I copy edited "Death of a Siren,"​ a nautical mystery by William S. Schaill, for Chicago Review Press. I served as a juror on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Book Committee.

I am a cofounder of Jalada, a pan-African writers'​ collective focused on new and emerging writers. I worked as associate editor on its first two anthologies. I copy edited portions of its fourth anthology, which was a collaboration with the Writivism Festival in Uganda.

I think a lot about how to sustain literature in the iphone era, how to make audiences want to buy and support writing, the sweet spots where the literary and the commercial overlap, literature as library as opposed to canon, world literature, women's literature, the relationship between writer, editor, reader and the page, my love for em dashes.

I'm looking for full-time and freelance opportunities. Get in touch to talk books, writing, or publishing:

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