Baingana won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction in 2003 for her collection Tropical Fish.

Baingana was a contractor with Voice of America for a decade and taught at the Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD before returning to Uganda.

She was a managing editor of Storymoja Africa, a Kenyan publisher, and chairperson of FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writers Association.

[7] The title story of Baingana's award-winning collection Tropical Fish has been adapted to the stage and performed at the Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF 2016)[8] and four other venues in Kampala, as well as the AfriCologne Theatre Festival in Cologne, Germany, in 2017.

Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, April 2009 -Republished in St. Petersburg Review, 2008 -Republished in Air Uganda Inflight Magazine, Oct. – Dec. 2008 Air Uganda Inflight Magazine, October–December 2008 The Manchester Review, July 2017