Vuyokazi Ngemntu [She/Them] is a writer-and performer in Cape Town, South Africa, whose praxis uses poetry, song, physical theatre, storytelling and ritual to navigate epigenetic trauma and centre Indigenous knowledge systems in the creation of new black imaginaries. Her short story, Binnegoed, was the overall short story winner and published in the Ibua Journal’s Food edition. Her short story, Blood and Ballots, was published in Best African Speculative Fiction Vol. 3.Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, The Kalahari Review, Herri, Ibua Journal, Short.Sharp.Stories, New Contrast, Ake Review, Pepper Coast Lit, the Culture Review, and elsewhere.
