She is a recipient of 2011 Young Achievers Award in the category of Art, Culture and Fashion. She was Laureate for Council for the Development of Social Science (CODESRIA) Democratic Governance Institute 2010 in Dakar, Senegal. She was shortlisted for the prestigious 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing and finalist for the PEN/Studzinski Literary Award 2009. She was a fellow for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in 2009 where she researched on land disputes in northern Uganda. She has worked as a researcher and teacher in Uganda; and in Italy and Sudan, she worked with an international humanitarian agency. She is working on her first novel, a number of short stories, and a series of children stories.