Arja Salafranca

Arja
Salafranca has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped
of Illusions, which received the Sanlam Award for poetry, The Fire in
which we Burn; and Beyond Touch (2015) which was a co-winner of the SALA
Awards. Her fiction has been published online, in anthologies and
journals, and is collected in her debut collection, The Thin Line, long
listed for the Wole Soyinka Award. She has participated in a number of
writers’ conferences, edited two anthologies and has received awards for
her poetry and fiction. Her next book is a collection of creative
non-fiction essays, travel writing, personal essays and journal entries,
to be published by Modjaji in 2019. She lives in Johannesburg.