Makena Onjerika is a Kenyan writer, who won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story entitled "Fanta Blackcurrant", published in Wasafiri (2017) Makena is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing programme at New York University, and has been published in Urban Confusions and Wasafiri. She founded the Nairobi Fiction Writing Workshop and edited the anthology Digital Bedbugs, composed of the stories from the workshop. She lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and is currently working on a fantasy novel.