Mutinda Kilonzo is the Creative Director at Qwani, where he has been curating the books being published, the films being shot, and the weekly events for the Qwani community. In addition to that, he is also one of the co-founders of The Drunken Lectures.
Celeste Wamiru is a political cartoonist, visual storyteller and illustrator. Passionate practitioner of artivism through comics.
Felistas Thairu is a Comic Artist and 2D Animator who loves to tell authentic, unique, and captivating stories. She loves creating content for children. She has illustrated a children’s book called “The Misadventures of Ema and Lo, A Little Nap,” written by Yvonne Wamuyu.
Dennis Mugaa is a Kenyan writer and editor from Meru. He won the 2022 Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest, has been published in journals such as Transition, Jalada Africa, and Lolwe, and was the 2023/2024 Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellow at A Long House. A Miles Morland Foundation Scholar with an MA from the University of East Anglia, he published his debut short story collection, Half Portraits Under Water, in 2024.
Michelle K. Angwenyi is a writer from Nairobi, Kenya. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and for the 2017 Short Story Day African Prize. Her writing has been featured in the collaborative art exhibition, Wanakuboeka Feelharmonic, organized by the collective Naijographia, and her work has appeared in Jalada, Enkare Review, Kalahari Review, the Mays, notes, 20.35 Africa, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook “Gray Latitudes,” included in New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba).
Keith Ang‘ana is the Founder & Executive Director of Qwani, which is a youth collective meant to provide a platform for young creatives to showcase their works. In his personal capacity, he is a historian, researcher and writer, majoring in non-fictional essays. His work has been published in Afrospatial Magazine, Brittle Paper, The Elephant & Africa Is A Country, among others.
Clifton Gachagua is a Nairobi-based author of Madman at Kilifi. His work appears in Tramset, Obsidian, +doc, ANMLY, Prism, Glassworks, the87press, Harvard Divinity Journal, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere.
Marcelline Akinyi is a comic author and visual artist passionate about telling African stories. Her work focuses on climate change and pre-colonial African history.
Joan Thatiah is a seasoned print journalist with over a decade of experience at Daily Nation. She is the author of ten books, including the acclaimed Confessions of Nairobi Women (Book 1), which was first runner-up for the 2025 Text Book Centre Penmanship Award
Kabubu Mutua is a writer and translator who grew up in Machakos, Kenya, and spent most of his childhood in boarding school. His writing has appeared in adda, Exposition Review, A Long House, Short Story Day Africa, and elsewhere.
Dr. Dino J. Martins, a Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is a Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University. Formerly the Academic Field Director for the Turkana Basin Institute Field School. He holds a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2011).
Florence Onyango is a Kenyan speculative fiction writer based in Nairobi. Her short stories have been published in the Fresh Paint Volume II anthology(2013), the Short Story Day Water Anthology(2015), the Let Us Conspire and Other Stories anthology(2024), Kikwetu Journal(2022,2024), Omenana(2024), Will This Be A Problem(2024), Myths, Gods & Immortals: Anansi(2025) among other literary journals.
Dorechi is a writer from Kenya whose work explores psychological horror. When not writing, they enjoy reading and creating art—both of which inspire their storytelling.