Makhosazana Xaba is an anthologist, essayist, short story writer and poet. She has published three collections of poetry, while her debut short story collection Running and other stories (2013) was a joint winner of the 2014 South African Literary Awards Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award. She is co-editor of three Queer Africa anthologies and Proudly Malawian: Life Stories from Lesbian and Gender-nonconforming Individuals (2016). She is currently a research fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), working on a biography of Helen Nontando 'Noni' Jabavu.
