Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and the author of The First Woman (2021), Manchester Happened (2019), and Kintu (2014). She is a recipient of the Jhalak Prize, the Prix Transfuge Du Meilleur Premier Roman, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Global Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has been a Writer-in-Residence at NIAS-KNAW, a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin, and a Franke Fellow at Yale University. Makumbi has a PhD from Lancaster University and has taught in several universities in Britain. She is working on her fifth book, The Second Harvest.