Is an editor and journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was an Assistant Editor at Kwani Trust between 2015 and 2019. At Kwani, he was part of the editorial team on the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the Kwani? Journal. Otieno co-edited the Short Story Day Africa's ID anthology (2018). In 2016, he served as Junior Editor of Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (2016), an anthology put together by Commonwealth Writers, where he worked with editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey. Otieno has also taken freelance editorial jobs from several publishers, including Huza Press (Rwanda) and the Indigo Press (UK). In 2017, he completed an MLitt (with Distinction) in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, UK, as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is an alumnus of the 2014 Africa Writer's Trust Editorial Training Workshop.
