Photo by Adam Mays

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