Kobus Moolman is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published seven collections of poetry and two collections of plays. He has won numerous awards for his writing and has also edited an anthology of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities.In 2013 he was the Mellon Writer in Residence for three months at Rhodes University. His first collection of short stories, The Swimming Lesson, will be published this year.