About Iryn Tushabe

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch, Prairies North, Adda, The Walrus, and in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, and has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The best of Canada’s New Writers (volumes 30 and 33.)

Tushabe won the City of Regina writing award in 2020 and 2024, was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and won The Journey Prize which, in 2023, recognized the year’s best short story by an emerging Black writer. Her debut novel, Everything is Fine Here, is forthcoming with House of Anansi Press on April 22, 2025. Tushabe lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is represented by Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency.