Hope Wabuke is a widely acclaimed Ugandan poet and writer. She is the author of the chapbooks “her,” “The Leaving” and “Movement No. 1: Trains,” and her work has been published in an array of media, including The Guardian, Los Angeles Times Review of Books and NPR. She has also received numerous accolades from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Times Foundation and the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, among others. She currently works as an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.