Zukisani Nongogo was born in the Eastern Cape in Mount Ayliff and currently lives in Cape Town where he works as a theatre facilitator. He has been published in The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology 2015,2017, 2018, 2019, Prufrock Magazine, Fundza online and the online literary journal Eunoia Review. Smouldering in the township is his first published short story.