Stanley Gazemba's breakthrough novel, The Stone Hills of Maragoli, published in the USA as Forbidden Fruit (The Mantle Press), won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Kenyan Literature in 2003. He is also the author of the short-story collection Dog Meat Samosa (Regal House Publishing, 2019) and Khama (The Mantle, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Wilbur and Niso Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Callused Hands, among other novels. His latest novel, Footprints in the Sand was published in Sweden in 2021. In addition, he has written several children's books, including A Scare in the Village (OUP, 2005), which won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize.
Stanley's prolific writings and stories have appeared in several international publications, including The New York Times, 'A' is for Ancestors, the Caine Prize Anthology, World Literature Today, and The East African magazine. Stanley lives in Nairobi, and his short story, Talking Money, was recently published in Africa 39, a Hay Festival publication released in 2014. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., Africa 39 features a collection of 39 short stories by some of Africa's leading contemporary authors. Stanley is also in the process of working on an array of creative literary projects.