b. 1990, Durban, South Africa
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland

Roles:

• Director, uHlanga

Qualifications:

• PhD, English & Writing Practice, University of Dundee, 2024

• MA, English Language & Literature, University of Cape Town, 2016

• BA (Hons), Media Theory & Practice, University of Cape Town, 2011

• BA, English and Journalism & Media Studies Rhodes University, 2010

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, for “1-HR FOTO”

• Winner: National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards, 2014, for “Turning”

• Winner: South African Arts Journalism Awards Special Silver Merit for Features, 2014

• Runner-up: Desperate Literature Award for Short Fiction, 2021, for “Section 22”

• Shortlisted: BBC National Short Story Award, 2023, for “The Storm”

• Shortlisted: NIHSS Award for Best Poetry, 2023, for The Book of Unrest

• Shortlisted: New Contrast National Poetry Prize, 2021

• Shortlisted: Nadine Gordimer Award, 2017, for Stations

• Shortlisted: White Review Prize, 2015, for “Posman”

• 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