Shailja Patel is a queer feminist internationalist from Kenya. She is the author of the international bestseller Migritude, which is currently taught in over 150 colleges and universities worldwide. Migritude was shortlisted for the Premio Letterario di Camaiore. Patel’s poems have been translated into 17 languages. She represented Kenya at the London Cultural Olympiad’s Poetry Parnassus. The African Women’s Development Fund named Patel one of Fifty Inspirational African Feminists, and the Nobel Women’s Initiative honored her with a Global Feminist Spotlight.