Moraa Gitaa is a Kenyan novelist, born in Mombasa. She is also a Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution researcher, cultural advocate and arts curator. She is the author of the YA novels Let's Talk About This, The Kigango Oracle, Hila and The Shark Attack. Career Gitaa's debut full-length adult fiction novel, Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold, centres on two characters: Lavina, a Kenyan African woman living with HIV, and Giorgio, an Italian man whom Lavina meets on vacation in Malindi on Kenya's coast. Gitaa's sophomore novel is Shifting Sands. Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold has been critiqued by scholars as a re-reading and re-writing of gender in times of HIV. Her work on Shifting Sands received a positive review in the Nairobi Star from Khainga O' Okwemba, who said: "Here is a writer with the patience, perseverance and discipline needed to create vivid characters. Here is a contemporary Kenyan writer capable of bedazzling and cajoling the reader with a skillfully written and scintillating narrative.... Shifting Sands is a must read for literature students." Gitaa's stories focus on the vulnerable, underserved, marginal and marginalized members of contemporary African society. Gitaa's non-fiction and short stories have been featured in Harvard University's Transition Magazine, PEN International's PEN OutWrite,, IFLAC'S Peace & Anti-Terror Anthology, Spotlight Publisher's Waiting and Other Stories, Creatives Garage Anthology, several Author Me Anthologies, several G21 The World's Magazine Anthologies including Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent, The African Magazine, and Hekaya Initiative In 2014 James Murua's Literary Blog included Gitaa in a list of 39 top African novelists under the age of 40 writing in English. Works Let's Talk About This. Worlds Unknown Publishers, Kenya, 2020 The Kigango Oracle. Worlds Unknown Publishers, Kenya, 2020 Hila. Storymoja Publishers, Kenya, 2015 The Shark Attack. Moran Publishers, Kenya, 2014 The Con Artist. Kenya Literature Bureau, Kenya, 2014 Shifting Sands. Nsemia Publishers, Kenya, 2012 Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold. Nsemia Publishers, Kenya, 2008 Anthologies featured African Land Policy Center (ALPC) Anthology ‘Finding Ground and Other Stories’ on land governance in Africa, 2022. Hekaya Arts Initiative Issue 01 / Libros Agency: Anthology - Jihadi Bride and Other Stories, Kenya, 2018 Transition Magazine Issue 121: Theme - Childhood - Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, 2016 Creatives Garage: Femmolution Volume 01, Kenya, 2016 Waiting and Other Stories: Spotlight Publishers, Kenya, 2016 PEN OutWrite