Born in Kenya in 1966 and raised in Uganda, Juliane Okot Bitek is a Vancouver writer whose work has been anthologized and published widely in literary magazines, on-line and in print. Juliane has been an invited poet at the International Poetry Festivals of Medellin, Colombia (2008) and Granada, Nicaragua (2009). She continues to write and speak about issues of home, homeland and diaspora.

Juliane Okot Bitek is a PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Students Graduate Program, a the University of British Columbia. She holds a Master’s Degree in English and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art (Creative Writing). Her doctoral research focuses on post-conflict narratives of formerly abducted women in northern Uganda.

Also known as Otoniya J. Okot Bitek