STRANGE FRUIT, poems

56pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009

Freelance editor, author and academic Helen Moffet was born in Pretoria in 1961. Her publications include Lovely Beyond Any Singing. a treasury of landscape writings; Stray, an animal charity anthology (with Diane Awerbuck); the Girl Walks In erotica series (with Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick), and the poetry collection Prunings (2016), which won the 2017 SALA prize. She has edited the last three Short Story Day Africa anthologies, Migrations, ID and Hotel Africa and written two green handbooks: 101 Water-wise Ways and Wise About Waste: 150+ ways to help the planet. Her first novel, Charlotte, was published in 2020.