Idza Luhumyo

Idza Luhumyo (born 1993) is a Kenyan short story writer, whose work explores Kenyan coastal identities. In July 2020, Luhumyo was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Margaret Busby "New Daughters of Africa" Award.
Life.
Idza Luhumyo was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and holds a law degree from Nairobi University. She lives between Kilifi and Nairobi, and works as a screenwriter and copywriter. On 21 July 2020 it was announced that she was the first recipient of a scholarship enabled by the publication by Myriad Editions of Margaret Busby's 1919 anthology "New Daughters of Africa" and that Luhumyo would start postgraduate studies at SOAS University of London in autumn 2020, with accommodation provided by International Students House.
Luhumyo's work has been published by "Popula", "Jalada Africa", "The Writivism Anthology", "Baphash Literary & Arts Quarterly", "MaThoko's Books", "Gordon Square Review", Amsterdam's "ZAM Magazine", "Short Story Day Africa", the "New Internationalist", "The Dark" and "African Arguments". Her work has been shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize, the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, and the Gerald Kraak Award.