Makhosazana Xaba
MAKHOSAZANA
XABA is the author of two poetry collections: these hands (2005) and,
Tongues of their Mothers (2008). Her poetry has been anthologized
widely, translated into Italian, Mandarin and Turkish and also available
from the Cambridge Poetry Archive. She is the editor of, Like the
untouchable wind: An anthology of poems (2016). Her collection of
collection of fiction, Running & other stories (2013), won the SALA
Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014. Her short story "Running" won
the Deon Hofmeyr Prize for Creative Writing in 2005 and was
anthologised in, 20 Best Short Stories of South Africa's Democracy, in
2014. She has co-edited three anthologies; Proudly Malawian: Life
Stories from lesbian and gender-nonconforming individuals (2016) and
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013) which won the 26th Lambda
Literary Award for the fiction anthology category in 2014 and was
translated in Spanish in the same year. In 2017, Queer Africa 2: New
Fiction is coming out. Xaba holds an MA in Writing (with distinction)
from The University of the Witwatersrand.
