Gitaa's debut full-length adult fiction novel,
Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold, centres on two characters: Lavina, a Kenyan African woman living with
HIV, and Giorgio, an Italian man whom Lavina meets on vacation in
Malindi on Kenya's coast. Gitaa's sophomore novel is
Shifting Sands.
Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold has been critiqued by scholars as a re-reading and re-writing of gender in times of
HIV. Her work on
Shifting Sands received a positive review in the
Nairobi Star from Khainga O' Okwemba, who said: "Here is a writer with the patience, perseverance and discipline needed to create vivid characters. Here is a contemporary Kenyan writer capable of bedazzling and cajoling the reader with a skillfully written and scintillating narrative.... Shifting Sands is a must read for literature students." Gitaa's stories focus on the vulnerable, underserved, marginal and marginalized members of contemporary African society. Gitaa's non-fiction and short stories have been featured in
Harvard University's
Transition Magazine,
PEN International's
PEN OutWrite,, IFLAC'S Peace & Anti-Terror Anthology, Spotlight Publisher's Waiting and Other Stories, Creatives Garage Anthology, several Author Me Anthologies, several G21 The World's Magazine Anthologies including
Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent, The African Magazine, and
Hekaya Initiative In 2014,
James Murua included Gitaa in a list of 39 top African novelists under the age of 40 writing in English. ==Works==