Goretti Kyomuhendo is one of Uganda’s leading novelists and founding director of the African Writers Trust. She is the author of three other novels: The First Daughter (1996); Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel in the same year; and Waiting (2007), published by The Feminist Press in New York and translated into Spanish in 2022. In 2014, she published the Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers. She has also published several children’s books and short stories.