Deborah Seddon was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, emigrating to South Africa where she now lives and works. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University, in Makhanda. During her career as an academic, she has contributed essays, book chapters, articles, and reviews to a wide variety of publications. Her poetry has been published in various journals, both locally and abroad, including Ons Klyntji, Botsotso, New Contrast, the Sol Plaatje European Union Anthology, the AvBob Poetry Project, the Badilisha Poetry X-Change Archive of Pan-African poets, the Gerald Kraak Anthology, and Sinister Wisdom. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Award and the New Contrast National Poetry Prize. Magnitude, her debut poetry collection, will be published by Dryad Press in November 2025.
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