Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a fiction writer of The First Woman 2020, (A Girl is a Body of Water for US/Canada) which won the Jhalak Prize Book of the Year 2021, was shortlisted for The Diverse Book Award 2021, the Encore Prize 2021, the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and longlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021.
Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project 2013, the Prix Transfuge Du Meilluer Premier Roman Francais (2019) shortlisted for Edward Stanford Awards (2019) Longlisted for The Prix Du Medicis (2019).
Her collection of short stories, Manchester Happened, (Let’s Tell This Story Properly for US/Canada) was shortlisted for The Big Book prize: Harper’s Bazaar 2019 and longlisted for Edge Hill Prize. A recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize 2018, Makumbi won the Global Commonwealth Short story prize 2014.
She has a PhD from Lancaster University and has taught in several universities in Britain.