{"id":5571,"date":"2025-06-01T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=5571"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:31:57","slug":"billy-kahora","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/billy-kahora\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Kahora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Kahora<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the author of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The True Story Of David Munyakei<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(2010), a work of non-fiction, and a short story collection,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cape Cod Bicycle War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(2019). His short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chimurenga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McSweeney\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Granta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Online,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internazionale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanity Fair<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kwani?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0He was Managing Editor of Kwani Trust, a Nairobi-based literary network, between 2007-2017. He was Kwani Litfest Curator between 2008-2017, curating several chapters of the Festival. Kahora is a past recipient of the Chevening Scholarship, an Iowa Writers\u2019 Fellowship and recently the President\u2019s Award at the University of Manchester where he received his PhD in Creative Writing in November 2023. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Bristol.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5572,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5571","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Billy Kahora - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/billy-kahora\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Billy Kahora\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Billy Kahora is the author of\u00a0The True Story Of David Munyakei\u00a0(2010), a work of non-fiction, and a short story collection,\u00a0The Cape Cod Bicycle War\u00a0(2019). 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