Crystal Warren grew up in Port Elizabeth but has spent her entire adult
life in Grahamstown/Makhanda. She has studied Librarianship, English
literature and History, and works as a librarian, literary researcher
and museum curator. She edited New Coin poetry magazine for four years
and has taught creative writing courses and workshops. Her poems have
been published in several South African journals and anthologies. Her
first collection of poems Bodies of Glass was published by Aerial
Publishing in 2004.