She lives in Manchester with her husband and son and lectures in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Retitled Let’s Tell This Story Properly, the collection was published in the US in July 2019. Her first full story collection, Manchester Happened, was published by Oneworld in May 2019.
She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short-Story Prize for her story Lets Tell This Story Properly, published by Granta, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 to support her writing. Ugandan novelist and short-story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi ’s first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014.
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