Megan Hall

Megan Hall was born and grew up in Cape Town, and studied English and Latin at the University of Cape Town. Since 1995, she has worked in the publishing industry and is currently publisher for dictionaries and school literature in English at Oxford University Press Southern Africa. Her poetry has appeared in various local journals since 1991, as well as the school anthology Worldscapes. A short story is forthcoming from Botsotso and an essay of hers was included in Leaves to a Tree, edited by Robin Malan. She has also edited poetry and fiction for New Contrast, and taken part in both Young Voices (the 2004 South African Online Writers’ Conference hosted by Litnet) and the 2005 Crossing Borders programme, a British Council-sponsored writer’s mentorship. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and a cat.