Christopher Okemwa is a widely published playwright, poet and novelist. His novella, Sabina and the Mystery of the Ogre (Nsemia Inc.) won the 2015 Burt Award for African Literature (Kenya). Purgatorius Ignis (Nsemia Inc., 2016), a French English poetry collection, is his most recent release. Okemwa, who teaches literature at Kisii University, has a number of publications, including short story collections and works on indigenous knowledge of the Gusii.