[1] She received a grant from the HF Guggenheim Foundation to research land disputes in post-conflict northern Uganda.
She attended the Uganda Martyrs Secondary School, Namugongo, before joining Makerere University for a Bachelor of Arts with Education degree.
[12] In her third year at Makerere University, she joined FEMRITE, an organisation aimed at developing and promoting women writers.
This story was picked up by the British Council after Lamwaka submitted it to Gowanus Books online in the ongoing project "Crossing Borders".
[14] Among other publications in which Lamwaka's work has appeared are Butterfly Dreams and Other Stories from Uganda, New Writing from Africa 2009, Words from A Granary (2001), World of Our Own, Farming Ashes, Summoning the Rains, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013), and PMS poemmemoirstory journal.