Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrofuturist freedom dreamer, Swahili sea  lover, and Femme Storyteller among other things, hailing from Nairobi,  Kenya. She is currently pursuing a Literary Arts MFA at Brown  University. Shingai’s short story “Holding Onto Water” was longlisted  for the Nommo Awards 2020 & her flash fiction “Remember Tomorrow in  Seasons” was shortlisted for the Fractured Lit Prize 2020. She has been  selected as a candidate for the Clarion UCSD Class of 2020/2021. #clarionghostclass. She is also the co-founder of Voodoonauts: an afrofuturist workshop for black writers.