Yvette Christiansë

Yvette Christiansë is a novelist, poet, and scholar. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was raised in that city and in Cape Town, as well as in Mbabane, Swaziland. In her late teens her family moved to Australia to escape apartheid. She now lives in New York City where she teaches African American and postcolonial literatures, as well as poetics, at Fordham University.