Nyana Kakoma is a Ugandan writer, ^[1] editor, blogger, ^[2] and publisher ^[3] from Kampala. She created the online platform Sooo Many Stories that promotes Ugandan literature. ^[4] She formerly wrote under her maiden name Hellen Nyana. ^{[5] [6]} She is one of the facilitators of Writivism in Kampala 2015. ^[7] She took part in "Bremen & Kampala – Spaces of Transcultural Writing", a collaboration between writers from Uganda and Bremen. ^[8] She is a member of Femrite. In February 2015, she was awarded an editorial fellowship at Modjaji Books by the African Writers Trust and Commonwealth Writers. A number of her articles have appeared in newspapers. ^{[9] [10] [11]} She attended the Caine Prize workshop 2013, ^[12] and her story "Chief Mourner" was published in the Caine Prize anthology A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013. ^[13]

Nyana attended Gayaza High School for secondary education. She graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Literature and Communication Skills.^{[ citation needed]}

• "Chief Mourner" in A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013. Jakana media. 2013. ISBN  9781431408382. ^[14]
• "Just because you didn't win"
• "Fringes" in Storymoja blog, 2014
• "Waiting" in The Suubi Collection (2013)

• "Makumbi lives, breathes writing"