MXOLISI NYEZWA was born in 1967 in New Brighton, South Africa. He is the author of three books of poems in English-Song Trials (2000), New Country (2008), and Malikhanye (2011)-and a book of Xhosa poems, Ndiyoyika (2016). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies in South Africa and internationally. In 1997, Nyezwa founded the multilingual cultural journal Kotaz, which he still edits, and he is also a publisher of books in Xhosa under the imprint Imbizo Arts. He runs a small business and urban chicken farm in Motherwell, outside Gqeberha, South Africa.