Alice Muthoni Gichuru, who writes as Muthoni wa Gichuru, is a Kenyan writer of fiction for children and young adults, as well as short stories.
[1] Muthoni wa Gichuru grew up in Matanya, a small village in Nanyuki.
[3] Gichuru's husband, Joseph Kamau, encouraged her to start writing stories in 2002.
[2] Her first published book, Breaking the Silence (2009), was runner-up for the 2011 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in the English-language youth category.
[3] The Carving (2019) was the winner of the 2018 CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature in Kenya.