Gloria Mwaniga Odary, a writer and educator from Kenya, is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Memphis, where she teaches Literature & English composition, and works as online co-editor of the Pinch Literary Journal. Odary is fascinated by historical revisionism and the intersection between research and imagination. Her work offers new interpretations of historical events, epics, myths, folktales, and tales of colonial dispossession in East Africa. Odary is a recipient of the 2024 Georgia Review Prose Prize, the 2024 Isele Nonfiction Prize, the 2021 African Land Policy Centre Story Prize, and the 2019 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Georgia Review, Lolwe, Weganda Review, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Isele, The White Review, CRAFT, and elsewhere.
