Thandiwe Nqanda

South Africa

The South African author and performance poet has performed locally and internationally on platforms including 16DaysOfActivism16Poets, The Open Book Festival, and the Word N Sound Poetry Slam. She was a guest poet at the State of the Nation Address in 2022, and her audiences can be found in Zimbabwe and Namibia, and further afield in the UK, USA and Germany. She wrote and composed IT IS TIME, a musical poetry show, and co-wrote and performed Grieve, that is how you survive, which debuted at the National Arts Festival last year. She has been published in the South African Journal, New Contrast, and her debut collection, No Time to Mourn, has been well-received.