Kinyanjui Kombani 'The Banker who writes' is a Singapore-based Kenyan creative writer, banker, and design thinking specialist.

He is the 2018 Winner of the Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature for his story 'Finding Colombia'. In 2019, he won the Jomo Kenyatta and Wahome Mutahi prizes for Literature for 'Do or Do' and 'Of Pawns and Players' respectively. He was named as one of the 25 Notable Authors of all time by Kenya Publishers Association in 2024.

His novels ‘The Last Villains of Molo’, and 'Den of Inequities' have been study texts at university level, while 'Finding Colombia' is a study text for Grade 7 in Kenyan schools. His autobiography, 'Dear Mama' is the compulsory set book for Grade 10 in Kenya.

Kombani’s work includes 16 solo publications and 8 collaborations, including the acclaimed 'Nairobi Noir' anthology.

Kinyanjui is a graduate of Kenyatta University, Kenya, where he honed his skills in theatre and creative writing. ‘Carcasses’, a play he wrote for Born Free Foundation’s Bush Meat Trade Awareness project, was performed to audiences all over the country and later shot to film. as ‘Mizoga’. The film has been screened in Africa, Europe and the USA and has been shown to over 60,000 rural Kenyans.