Makhosazana Xaba

Makhosazana Xaba is an anthologist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories. Her poetry has been anthologised widely and translated into isiXhosa, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, SeTswana and Turkish and her edited anthologies have been translated into Spanish. She holds and MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) from Wits University. She grounds her work on feminist politics.

Publications

Poetry Collections

• The Alkalinity of Bottled Water (2019)
• These hands (2017 & 2005)
• Tongues of their Mothers (2008)

As compiler and editor

• Our Words Our Worlds, Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018 (2019)
• Like the untouchable wind: an anthology of poems (2016)

Short Stories

• Running and Other Stories (2013)

Co-edited volumes

• Queer Africa: Selected Stories (2018
• Queer Africa: New Stories (2017)
• Proudly Malawian: Life Stories from Lesbian and Gender nonconforming Individuals (2015)
• Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013)