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.