Meg Vandermerwe

Meg Vandermerwe is the author of the short-story collection This Place I Call Home and the novel Zebra Crossing, selected by the Cape Times as one of the ten best South African books published in 2013 and chosen for The Guardian as one of the top ten books about migrants. She holds degrees from the universities of Oxford, Sussex, and East Anglia, and received her PhD from Lancaster University in 2014. Currently living in Cape Town, she teaches at the University of the Western Cape, where her responsibilities include uwc creates, the first multilingual creative-writing programme in South African higher education.