Kuchenga Shenjé

Kuchenga is a writer, journalist and speaker with work on many media platforms including Stylist, British Vogue and Netflix. Owing to a lifelong obsession with books and the written word, Kuchenga studied Creative Writing at The Open University, and has contributed short stories and essays to several anthologies. Her work is focused on the perils of loving, being loved and women living out loud throughout the ages. Her first novel The Library Thief is the ultimate marriage of her passions for history, mystery and rebels and was shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award. She currently resides in Manchester where she is determined to continue living a life worth writing about.