Okwiri Oduor worked on her first full-length novel. In August 2013, she directed the inaugural Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala, Uganda. In September 2013, she was announced winner of Short Story Day Africa's Feast, Famine and Potluck story contest. She writes scripts for television and teaches Swahili and creative writing.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Okwiri Oduor
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Nairobi, KENYA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Okwiri Oduor worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…