Masande Ntshanga

Masande Ngcali Ntshanga is a South African novelist, short story writer, poet, editor and publisher. He is the author of two novels, The Reactive (2014), which was published in five territories and won a Betty Trask Award in 2018, and Triangulum (2019), for which he was nominated for a Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African. In 2020, Ntshanga released his third book, Native Life in the Third Millennium (2020), a collection of poetry and prose from his experimental press, Model See Media, which was also well received, with critics praising it for its themes and use of language. Ntshanga has delivered guest lectures at the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts in Cape Town, The Beeler Gallery in Columbus, The Columbus College of Arts and Design, The Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town, and The SAE Institute for Creative Media in Johannesburg. In 2020, he joined the Rhodes University MA in Creative Writing Program as a part-time lecturer and took over the literary journal, New Contrast, becoming its first black editor since the magazine was established in 1960.