Zizipho Bam is an award-winning interdisciplinary poet, copywriter and visual storyteller based in Cape Town, South Africa. Using the body and its experience as inspiration, her poems reimagine longing, belonging, loss, and love and turn her stories into works of art. Bam also holds the 2020 New Coin Prize for her poem “Learning to swim” and the 2021 New Contrast National Poetry Prize for her poem “Silence in Church”. She is the author of the poetry collection, Sunflowers For My Lovers, (2022).
