Sheila Ngei is a Kenyan poet, writer, editor and musician. Her art is a means of making loud the inner conflict of a child raised to be quiet. Her recent work appears, or is forthcoming in: A Long House, Isele Magazine, Feminists in Kenya, Adventures, Afrocritik, and Qwani IV. Sheila is working on her debut poetry collection titled, Buy Me a Gun, and has been a 2025 spring semester scholar at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan, and a 2024 writing fellow at Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women. She is currently the Web Editor at Qwani, and reads submissions sent to qwanisubmissions@gmail.com