Mildred Barya

From August 2007 to August 2009, she served as Writer-in-Residence at TrustAfrica, a Pan-African foundation based in Dakar, Senegal. She graduated from MFA program at Syracuse University, New York, in 2012, a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Denver in 2016. She had been a member of the Creative Writing Faculty at Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA). She has lived and worked in Germany, Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. Besides her career as a writer, Barya has also worked as a Human Resource Advisor for Ernst & Young in Uganda, and currently teaches Creative Writing as a faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Barya is a founding member and serves on the advisory board of African Writers Trust, "a non-profit entity which seeks to coordinate and bring together African writers in the Diaspora and writers on the continent to promote sharing of skills and other resources, and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups."

Mildred Barya studied at Makerere University, Moi University and Syracuse University. The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are Men Love Chocolate But They Don't Say, Give Me Room To Move My Feet and The Price of Memory: After The Tsunami.

• Birth Name — Mildred Kiconco Barya • Birthplace — Kabale District, Uganda • Occupation — Writer • Education — Makerere University • Genre — Poetry • Notable Works — The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami, Give Me Room to Move My Feet • Website — http: mildredbarya.com/

Born in Kabale District in southwest Uganda, Barya attended Mwisi Primary School and Kigezi High School. In 1996, she was awarded a full government scholarship to attend Makerere University in Uganda. She graduated in 1999 with a BA in Literature. She also while at college joined FEMRITE—Uganda Women Writers Association, where she worked closely with Goretti Kyomuhendo, then Program Coordinator, and Violet Barungi, then FEMRITE editor. In 2000, Barya took certificate courses in Information, Communication and Globalisation at the International Women's University, Vifu, in Hamburg, Germany. In 2002, she studied Editorial Practices and Publishing Management at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. From 2002 to 2004, she rejoined Makerere University to earn a master's degree in Organisational Psychology. In 2006–2007, Barya held a writer's residence fellowship at the Per Sesh Writing Program in Popenguine, Senegal, under the instruction of Ayi Kwei Armah.

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• "Raindrops", in • "Scars of Earth", in • "Effigy Child", in • "Effigy Child", in • "What was left of us", in Pambazuka News, 2008. • "Black Stone", in Per Contra: An International Journal of the Arts, Literature, and Ideas, 2012. Reprinted in New Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby, ed., 2019.

• Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems: A Kampala Poetry Anthology; a Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Anthology. Gilgal Media Arts, 2015..

Mildred Barya is recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded as a citizen of Uganda.