Moraa Gitaa

Moraa Gitaa is an alumna of the Aga Khan High School and The Coast College of Commerce where she studied Administration and IT. She was born and raised in Mombasa. Currently, she works for the British Council in Nairobi as an Arts Manager. Moraa Gitaa started writing at a tender age. She has written several novels, among them Shifting Sands, Crucible for Silver & Furnace for Gold and Indecent Proposal. Her short stories have also appeared in several international anthologies. Moraa won First Prize in the 2008 National Book Development Council of Kenya Literary Book Week Awards for Adult Fiction and was also a nominee for the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing.