Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, Adda, Prairies North, The Walrus, on CBC Saskatchewan, and is forthcoming this spring in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, and has been included in the Journey Prize Stories (volumes 30 and 33.) In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. A 2023 winner of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, she’s currently finishing her debut novel, which is set in contemporary rural and urban Uganda. Her agent is Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency.