Allan Kolski Horwitz grew up in Cape Town and has lived in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. He is a member of the Botsotso Jesters performance poetry group and co-ordinator of Botsotso Publishing and the Botsotso Ensemble. His published work includes Saving Water, There are Two Birds at My Window, and The Colours of Our Flag.His short fiction is contained in three collections: Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage,and Meditations of a Non-White White. He has received the Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Short Fiction.
