ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born and raised in South Africa. In his twenties, he moved between the Middle East, Europe, and North America, before returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986. Since then, he has worked as an organizer and educator in the South African trade union and social housing movements. He is a writer, songwriter, and singer, a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group, and sits on the Botsotso Publishing editorial board. His short fiction has been published in three collections: Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage, and Meditations of a Non-White White. He has received the Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Short Fiction.