The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami, Give Me Room to Move My Feet
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Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer and poet from Uganda.[1] She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, and earlier gained recognition for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say (2002) and The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami (2006).[2][3]
Barya has also worked as journalist and travel writer. From August 2007 to August 2009, she served as Writer-in-Residence at TrustAfrica, a Pan-African foundation based in Dakar, Senegal. She graduated from MFA program at Syracuse University, New York, in 2012, a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Denver in 2016. She had been a member of the Creative Writing Faculty at Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA).[4] [1] She has lived and worked in Germany, Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. Besides her career as a writer, Barya has also worked as a Human Resource Advisor for Ernst & Young in Uganda,[5][6][7] and currently teaches Creative Writing as a faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.[8]
Barya is a founding member[9] and serves on the advisory board of African Writers Trust,[10] "a non-profit entity which seeks to coordinate and bring together African writers in the Diaspora and writers on the continent to promote sharing of skills and other resources, and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups."[11]
^"Poets sip from Kiconco's chalice". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^Barya, M. K. (June 2008). "Bio", MildredBarya.com. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
^Pan African Literary Forum (May 2008) Archived 5 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine. "Writing Contest Results", PALF. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
^"Creative Writing – Faculty" Archived 27 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) (2013). Retrieved 3 February 2013.
^"Who We Are: Our Staff", Trust Africa (2008). Retrieved 14 June 2008.
^Barya, M. K. (7 March 2006). "Creating an enabling environment for writers" Archived 6 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Crossing Borders No. 10. British Council Arts. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
^Barya, M. K. (June 2008), "Press Release", MildredBarya.com. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
^"Mildred Barya | Department of English". english.unca.edu. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^Barya, Mildred. "The future of African writing: personal reflections". Pambazuka News, 10 August 2011. Issue 544. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
^"Advisory Board", African Writers Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
^"What is African Writers Trust?" African Writers Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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