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Diane Awerbuck taught English and History at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002; she was Head of English and also a member of the Governing Body. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing (UCT), awarded with distinction. Her novel Gardening at Night was reprinted by Vintage in March 2004. It won the Commonwealth First Book Award (African region) in 2004. She is currently working on its sequel, The House of Bread. She teaches Narrative and Aesthetics part-time at the film school AFDA. Her short stories appear regularly in publications - mainly because her ex-students all seem to be journalists. Awerbuck is a freelance journalist and reviewer, mostly for the South African Sunday Times. She also writes and edits for Maskew Miller Longman, and writes a column for www.extrange.com. On sexuality, erotics, disease, ageing, privacy, piercing, abuse Pumla Dineo Gqola is a feminist writer whose short stories have been published in anthologies of (South) African writing, and most recently in Tyhume, Gowanus and Postcolonial Text. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Fito, Chimurenga and the UK-based Drum. She has published academic articles on African and Caribbean literature, feminism, womanist and postcolonial studies, and is co-editor of Discourses on Difference, Discourses on Oppression (2002). A graduate of the Universities of Cape Town, Warwick (England) and Münich (Germany), she is employed as a senior lecturer in the Humanities at the University of the Free State. Ukufunda ngomzimba wam Growing into my body Stacy Hardy is a writer living in Cape Town. She is a founding member of the Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company, which has produced nine works since 1995. She's written scripts for the likes of Andrew Buckland, Ginette Ginslov and Martinus Basson's Reis, Vleis & Aartappels Theatre Company. Her hypertext and multimedia art has been exhibited at various local and international exhibitions. In 2002 she was a member of the South African delegation at Ars Electronica in Austria. She has won numerous awards, including a Construction Award (2003) and a New Channels Digital Art Competition award (2003). Her fiction has appeared on donga and LitNet and in AFRO Magazine. She participated in the 2003 Crossing Border Festival in The Hague in The Netherlands with fellow South African authors Ivan Vladislavic, Lesego Rampolokeng, Phaswane Mpe, K Sello Duiker and Nadine Botha. Friggin' in the riggin' cos there's fuck all else to do Ilse van Staden was born in Pretoria (1972) but grew up in the Waterberg. She matriculated at Pro Arte High School, Pretoria, and studied veterinary science at the University of Pretoria. After various locums in South Africa and also working for six months in England, she settled in Cullinan as a vet in 1997. Her poems were published in Nuwe Stemme 2 (Tafelberg, 2001) and in the debut anthology Watervlerk (Tafelberg, 2003). She is currently working towards a BA in Creative Writing through Unisa. Rapunsel in die toring Rapunzel in the tower Jackie Nagtegaal studied LLB at Stellenbosch. Wrote Vis in die Punch at 17. "I speak Afrikaans badly and most people think I'm going to hell." My lyf is die twee extremes tussen pleasure en pyn (met apologie aan Schopenhauer) My body is the two extremes between pleasure and pain (with apologies to Schopenhauer) Toast Coetzer is 27 and lives somewhere in Cape Town not too far from a bar, but was born in Cradock, went to school in Somerset East and then to varsity in Grahamstown. He likes fish and chips and travelling and cricket and mountains and Koreans. He's in a band called The Buckfever Underground which has two albums out, Jou Medemens is Dood and TAFL - Teaching Afrikaans as a Foreign Language. Once, way back, he beat the bass player of Skunk Anansie at pool. Over my dead body

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