KELETSO MOPAI is the author of the short story collection, If You Keep Digging (2019), and her work has been published internationally in several journals, including Internazionale, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Kaleidoscope Magazine, and Catapult. In 2017, she was awarded the Igby Prize for Nonfiction for her essay “This Is Not a Safe Place,” and in 2020, Mail & Guardian named her one of the top 200 Young South Africans. She has been shortlisted for various short story prizes, including the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction for her story “Monkeys,” and the Writivism Prize. We Belong to the Trees is her first novel, and Mopai is at work on her second story collection, The Mothers.
