Liesl Jobson was born in Durban, South Africa. Her poetry and prose has been
published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad. She
won the People Opposing Women Abuse women’s writing poetry competition
in 2005. She as also awarded a community publishing project great from
the Centre for the Book under the auspices of the National Library of
South Africa in 2007. This is her debut collection which won the Ernst
van Heerden creative writing award for 2006 from the University of the
Witwatersrand. She is a freelance writer, photographer ad bassoonist.

