Shingai Kagunda

Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown. Shingai’s work has been featured in the Best American Sci-fi and Fantasy 2020, Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. She has work in or upcoming in Omenana, FANTASY magazine, FracturedLit, Khoreo, Africa Risen, Bridging Worlds, Uncanny Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, andLightspeed among others. Their debut novella & This is How to Stay Alive published by Neon Hemlock Press (2021) won the Ignytes Award for best novella.  Shingai is a past co-editor of Podcastle Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and the co-founder of Voodoonauts. Shingai’s second book, and debut short story collection, Let the Star Explode is forthcoming in 2027 with Neon Hemlock. Shingai is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student, and a lover of all things soft and Black.