HOPE WABUKE is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and critic, born in the United States of Ugandan refugees. She is the author of the poetry collection The Body Family (Haymarket Books, 2022) and the chapbooks her (2019), The Leaving (2016), and Movement No. 1: Trains (2015). Her memoir Please Don't Kill My Black Son Please will be published by Vintage Books in winter 2022.
Wabuke writes literary and critical criticism for NPR and has also published widely in various magazines. A former contributing editor for The Root, she introduced a column on African diasporic literature. She is a founding board member and former Media & Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.
She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, the National Book Critics Circle, The New York Times Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, Cave Canem, the Awesome Foundation, Yale University's THREAD Writer's Program, the Poetry Foundation, and the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA).
Wabuke currently serves as Poetry Editor for Ruminate Magazine, and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
For more, please visit www.hopewabuke.com.
