Khaddafina Mbabazi is a writer and musician from Kampala. A winner of the PEN/Dau Prize for Emerging Writers, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, VQR, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Best Debut Short Stories 2021, and elsewhere. Her work revolves around the daily weather of women's lives.
She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, teaching fiction as well as a non-fiction course on cosmopolitanism. She was an inaugural Oxbelly fellow in 2023 and was a fellow-in-residence at The Kimmel Harding Nelson Centre in 2024. She was also shortlisted for a Miles Morland Scholarship in 2024.
At MacDowell, Mbabazi worked on two books, a collection of short fiction, and a novel.
