Michelle Chepchumba Korir
Michelle Chepchumba Korir is a reader and writer from Nairobi, Kenya. She draws on her backgrounds in psychology and literature to translate her knowledge of people into the stories she writes. She is the author of the short story collection Tears Make a Daughter (2025) and hopes to write more books because, well, her mother has made it clear that’s just what must happen.
Reading List
Yielding
Nathan’s gaze probes. How much of the exhaustion hangs on her eyelashes? Something like commiseration but not quite swims in his eyes, almost as if bidding her to allow the dam to break. She shifts in her seat, laughs, as if pretending to be okay will push him back across the line they are straddling.