Jackee Budesta Batanda

Jackee Budesta Batanda lives in Kampala, Uganda. She was given the Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Africa Region award for her story “Dance with Me.” Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa, highly commended for the Caine Prize, and published in numerous journals including Wasafiri, Moving Worlds, and Edinburgh Review. She has published The Blue Marble, a children’s picture book, and written a short story collection, Everyday People. Extracts of her novel, Our Time of Sorrow, have been published in St. Petersburg Review and The Literary Review. Two of her short stories have recently been published in the Oxford Book Worm Series for Learners of English as a foreign language. Jackee has been Writer-in-Residence at Lancaster University, England, and Peace Writer at the University of San Diego, California. She has performed her work in Uganda, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States.