A Book of Rooms<\/em>. <\/p>\nHis first collection of short fiction, The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories<\/em>, was published in 2018. He recently edited a special issue on contemporary South African poetry for the American journal, Illuminations<\/em> and in 2019, he published a chapbook of meditative poetry with drawings by Shubnum Khan, All and Everything<\/em> (uHlanga Press). His new collection of poetry, The Mountain behind the House<\/em>, from which he will read, is due to be released in early November.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Kobus Moolman<\/strong> is Professor of Creative Writing in the department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published seven collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and edited a collection of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities. He has won numerous local and international awards, including the Ingrid Jonker prize, the PANSA award, the South African Literary Award, the DALRO poetry prize, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry award and the 2015 Glenna Luschei Award for African Poetry for his collection A Book of Rooms<\/em>. <\/p>\n