Nkateko Masinga
@africaindialogue.com
Africa in Dialogue
Nkateko Masinga is an award-winning South African writer and scholar. She is a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow and a Golden Key Scholar. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018 and her work has received support from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and the Swiss Arts Council. In 2019, she co-won the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award. Nkateko is the director of the Internship Program at Africa In Dialogue, as well as the founder and managing director of NSUKU Publishing Consultancy. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa's 2021 International Writing Program (IWP) and served as the guest editor of the ‘Please See Me’ Summer Supplement, comprised of work by fellow IWP alumni. In 2022 she was selected by News24 as one of South Africa's 30 Young Mandelas of the Future. Nkateko's poetry has been translated into French, Bengali and Tamil. Her latest body of work, titled “Daughter Wound”, is forthcoming with Hazel Press (UK) in 2024
EDUCATION
University of Pretoria (SA)
Wagner College (USA)
University of Iowa (USA)
University of Cape Town (SA)
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Arts and Humanities, Language and Linguistics
Scholar Citations
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