Makena Onjerika is a Kenyan writer who won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing and was shortlisted for the 2020 Bristol Prize and 2022 NOMMO Award for Short Fiction. In 2024, she attended the Oxbelly Writing Retreat and was a finalist for the Flowers Fellowship at the Disquiet Literary Program. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Johannesburg Review of Books, Wasafiri, and Black Warrior Review. She is working on a novel-in-short-stories blending the real and the speculative. An ADHDer, she lives and works in Nairobi.