These days they call me by name: Hope. By “they,” I mean the people in our small dusty town, Masaka, where everyone k…
Ruth Mukwana
RUTH MUKWANA is a fiction writer from Uganda. She is also an aid worker currently working for the United Nations in New York. She’s a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars (MFA) and holds a Bachelors degree in Law from Makerere University. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Solstice Magazine, Black Warriors Review, Consequence Magazine and The Compassion Anthology, Speak the Magazine and Water~Stone Review. She lives with her daughter in New York.