b. 1990, Durban
Currently based in Edinburgh
Roles:
PhD student in English/Writing Practice (University of Dundee, ongoing)
Director, uHlanga
Qualifications:
MA, English Language & Literature (University of Cape Town)
BA (Hons), Media Theory & Practice (UCT)
BA, English and Journalism & Media Studies (Rhodes University)
Grants, scholarships and awards:
Skye Foundation Scholar, 2019–2024
Oppenheimer Memorial Trust grant, 2019–2024
Mandela Rhodes Scholar, 2015–2016
Winner: K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award, 2022, for A Hibiscus Coast
Winner: Nadine Gordimer Award, 2018, for The First Law of Sadness
Winner: Thomas Pringle Award for Short Story in Periodicals and Best Short Play, 2016
Winner: National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards, 2014
Winner: South African Arts Journalism Awards Special Silver Merit for Features, 2014
Runner-up: Desperate Literature Award for Short Fiction, 2021
Shortlisted: BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University, 2023
Shortlisted: New Contrast National Poetry Prize, 2021
Shortlisted: Nadine Gordimer Award, 2017, for Stations
Shortlisted: White Review Prize, 2015
Longlisted: Sunday Times Fiction Prize, 2022, for A Hibiscus Coast
Longlisted: Edge Hill Prize, 2017, for Stations
Nominee: South African Arts Journalist of the Year, 2014 and 2015
Mail & Guardian Young South African, 2018