Abdul Adan

Abdul Adan grew up in El-Wak town, on the Kenya-Somalia border. He later immigrated to the US and studied literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Afterwards, he moved to Kazakhstan where he taught English and studied Kazakh. His work has appeared in African-Writing, The Caine Prize Anthology of 2014 and 2017, Kwani?, SCARF magazine, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for The Caine Prize in 2016 and awarded The Miles Morland Fellowship for fiction the same year. Currently he works on a novel and a collection of short stories set in Eastleigh, a Somali neighbourhood in Nairobi.