About

Carey Baraka is a writer of fiction and nonfiction from Kisumu, Kenya. His writing about literary culture, food, sports, and politics, among other things, has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Guardian Long Reads, Vogue Business, Financial Times, Literary Hub, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Electric Literature, Serious Eats, Foreign Policy, Lonely Planet, and Gay Magazine, among other places. He has been supported by the Pulitzer Centre for Global Reporting and the Silvers Foundation and received fellowships from Macdowell and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP).