Siphiwo Mahala is a South African writer, editor and academic. He holds a PhD in English Literature and a masters in African Literature. His research interests include Contemporary African Literature, Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Black Intellectual History. He authored one novel – When a Man Cries, which he translated into isiXhosa under the title Yakhal’ Indoda. He also penned two short story collections African Delights and Red Apple Dreams and Other Stories. The House of Truth and Bloke and His American Bantu are his two critically acclaimed plays. His latest Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi won the Creative Non-Fiction Award at the South African Literary Awards. He also serves as the chair of the fiction panel for the Sunday Times Literary Awards. He is a Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Johannesburg and editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing.