Makhosazana Xaba


Makhosazana Xaba is a South African poet. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGOs, as well as writing on gender and health.

Biography

Makhosazana Xaba was born in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, to Glenrose Nomvula Mbatha and Rueben Bejanmin Xaba, the second of five children. She has an MA degree in creative writing from Wits University and is working on a biography of Noni Jabavu.
Xaba won the Deon Hofmeyr Award for Creative Writing for her unpublished short story "Running". Her poems have appeared in publications including Timbila, Sister Namibia, Botsotso, South African Writing, Green Dragon and Echoes, and have been collected in These Hands and Tongues of Their Mothers. A book of her short stories, Running and Other Stories, was published in 2013, and won the 2014 Nadine Gordimer South African Literary Awards Short Story Award. She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

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