Lolwe publishes rising third-year MFA student

Gloria Mwaniga Odary, a rising third-year MFA student, has published her story “Shelter” in the July edition of Lolwe.

A writer and educator from Kenya, she is currently pursuing a Creative writing MFA at the University of Memphis. Odary is a recipient of the 2024 Georgia Review Prose Prize, the 2024 Isele Magazine Nonfiction Prize, the 2021 African Land Policy Centre Story Prize and the 2019 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. Her work has appeared in the Georgia Review, Isele Magazine, Weganda Review, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The White Review, and elsewhere.