Her 2010 chapbook, Blue Mothertongue, was well received at home and at various festivals in Africa and Europe. A Callaloo Fellow, Ngwatilo’s poems have been published in Kwani?, World Literature Today and The Literary Review, while her creative non-fiction has appeared on Creative Time Reports and The New Inquiry. Her forthcoming poetry collection is based on her travels across Kenya between 2011 and 2013. Ngwatilo also writes for the screen. In 2015, Ngwatilo was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. She tweets sporadically at @ngwatilo.