Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and critic. She writes literary and cultural criticism for NPR and has been published widely in print and online.

Hope has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle, The New York Times Foundation and others. She currently serves as Poetry Editor for Ruminate Magazine and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.