Finuala Dowling

Finuala Dowling is an award-winning poet and novelist. She works as a freelance writer and creative writing teacher in Cape Town. She won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for I Flying, the Sanlam Prize for DooWop Girls of the Universe, the Olive Schreiner Prize for Notes from the Dementia Ward and the M-Net Prize for Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart. Dowling’s new book, The Man who Loved Crocodile Tamers will be released in 2022.