Goretti Kyomuhendo

Goretti Kyomuhendo

Goretti Kyomuhendo was born in 1965 and grew up in Hoima, western Uganda. She holds on an MA in creative writing from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and is one of the founding members of the Ugandan Women Writers’ Association and Publishing House - FEMRITE, where she worked as the Programme Coordinator for ten years (1997-2007). Kyomuhendo was the first Ugandan woman to receive an International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1997.  She currently lives in London

Titles

Waiting (The Feminist Press NY, 2007) 

Secrets no More (FEMRITE Publications Ltd, 1999)

The First Daughter (Fountain Publishers, 1996)