Amy Schoeman

Amy Schoeman was born in England and educated in Namibia and South Africa, where she obtained a B Comm (Law) degree at the University of Stellenbosch. After spending several years in Europe, she settled in Windhoek, working as a journalist/photographer at the Namibian Department of Nature Conservation for eight years, then as a free-lance writer, photographer and editor at Venture Publications in Windhoek, since 2004 on a full-time basis.

She has several non-fiction books to her name, including Skeleton Coast, Notes on Nature, Tones and Textures and Kolmanskop – past and present.

Published fiction includes a short story in Impressions of Independence – Six Namibian Stories; a short story short-listed in the Ian St James Awards competition and published in the ACCLAIM magazine; and an anthology of short stories, Mirage & other stories.

In 2009 two of her one-act plays were produced at the National Theatre of Namibia as part of the Bank Windhoek Arts Festival, while a full-length play currently awaits production.