Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize and her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project Prize in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” was the global winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her newest book is A Girl is a Body of Water. It was TIME — The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020; OPRAH MAGAZINE — Best Books of the Year and WASHINGTON POST – Best Fiction of the Year 2020.