Doreen Baingana

Doreen Baingana was born in Entebbe, Uganda in 1966, where she studied law before leaving for Italy, and then on to the United States in 1991. She now divides her time between Uganda and the US.  Her first book, Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe won the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award in Short Fiction, the Commonwealth Prize for First Book, Africa Region, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Prize for Debut Fiction.  She has also won a Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing.  Her fiction and essays have been published in journals such as Glimmer Train, Chelsea, African American Review in the US, The Guardian, UK and in New Vision, The Monitor, and African Woman in Uganda.  Ms. Baingana has been a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, where she received an MFA.  She teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the Kwani/Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya and works for Voice of America radio.

Titles

Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe  (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)