Goretti Kyomuhendo

Goretti Kyomuhendo is a Ugandan novelist and the founding director of the African Writers Trust and TUBAZE African Books. She is the author of five novels: The First Daughter (1996); Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel; Waiting (2007), published by The Feminist Press in New York and later translated into Spanish; Whispers from Vera (2023); and Promises (2025), published by Catalyst Press in the United States.