Wanjiru Koinange is an award winning author and restorer of libraries from Nairobi. Her debut novel The Havoc of Choice was published in the United Kingdom (2019/22), East Africa (2020) and the United Arab Emirates (2022) and was recently a runner up of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for literature and a finalist for the American Book Fest Best book Awards.
She is a founder of Book Bunk, a social impact organisation that continues to restore some of Nairobi's iconic public libraries into beautiful 'palaces for the people. The organisation has since restored two public libraries in Nairobi, and is now working on the city's oldest library.