Doreen Baingana

Doreen Baingana
Doreen Baingana at the Gothenburg Book Fair, 2010
Born	Doreen Baingana Entebbe, Uganda
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Ugandan
Alma mater	Makerere University, University of Maryland
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	Tropical Fish

Makerere University,

Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer and editor. Her book Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa Region, and the AWP Award for Short Fiction (US). She won a Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She was managing Editor at Story Moja, and was one of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges. She gave a talk on TED 2013 about "The role of offensive language in novels"

Ms. Baingana obtained a law degree from Makerere University, Uganda, and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, USA. While at Makerere University Baingana was an active member of FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association, which she has referred to as "a literary home of sorts". Baingana lived in the USA for over a decade before returning to Uganda.

Baingana's work has appeared in AGNI,Glimmer Train, African American Review, Callaloo, The Guardian, Kwani? and on BBC Commonwealth stories. Her book Tropical Fish has been published in the US, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and most recently came out in Swedish translation. She has taught creative writing at various institutions including the University of Maryland, the Writer's Center in Maryland, the SLS/Kwani? Literary Festival in Kenya, and with Femrite in Uganda.