Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer. Her doctoral novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project before its publication in 2014, and her short story "Let's Tell This Story Properly" was named overall winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She later published the story collection Manchester Happened and the novel The First Woman, which won the Jhalak Prize in 2021. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.