Manda Mutai photographed from above, surrounded by spiraling staircase.

Manda Mutai

Manda Mutai is a writer and director based in Chicago. She currently attends DePaul University to pursue an MFA in Directing. Her work pushes the boundaries of the coming-of-age genre and features radial and expansive stories from a queer African perspective. Her art reimagines the continent and those of the diaspora and rejects what Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie calls, “the single story.”