John W Wanyonyi is a fiction writer and a freelance editor born in Kenya. He developed the passion of writing at an early age. He has published several books in both Kiswahili and English. The most famous is a Kiswahili novel Safari ya Matumaini that won the second position in the 2019 award of Safal-Cornel Kiswahili Prize for East and Central African Literature. As an Editor he has edited more than 30 books of different authors from around the globe that have already been published by various publishers.