Zanta Nkumane

Zanta Nkumane is a writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, OkayAfrica, This Is Africa, Lolwe, Racebaitr, Amaka Studio, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Kalahari Review, The Republic and Michigan Quarterly Review. He has contributed essays to anthologies: We’re f*****g here! An African Queer Collection (Iwalewa Books, 2020) & TOUCH: Sex, Sexuality & Sensuality edited by Tiffany Kagure & Kim Windvogel (NB Publishers, 2021), Flow edited by Mehita Iqani (African Minds, 2023) and his short stories appear in Now Now: Short Stories from Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe edited by Remy Ngamije (2023) and Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa edited by Rachel Zadok and Hellen Moffett (Catalyst Press, 2024). The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, edited by Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman (Penguin, 2026). He was a British Council/Short Story Day Africa Inkubator Fellow 2022/23. Zanta was the 2022/23 UEA Booker Prize Foundation Scholar in the MA in Creative Writing, University of East Anglia.