Author: Abigail George

Abigail George lives in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (‘Wash Away My Sins’), and Best of the Net award (‘Secrets’). She is a blogger, lyricist, editor, filmmaker, playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and chapbook, novella, grant, and short story writer.

She is also the current Head of Campaigns and Projects at the National Writers Association of South Africa.

George was educated in Port Elizabeth, and in Swaziland. She briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg.

She is the Contributing Editor for African Writer and an editor at Mwanaka Media and Publishing. She writes op-ed pieces for local newspapers, and has written columns for a national travel magazine.

Her latest poetry collections are The Scholarship Girl: Life Writing, Parks and Recreation, Of Smoke Flesh and Bone: Poems Against Depression (Mwanaka Media and Publishing), and Anatomy of Melancholy (Praxis), a chapbook which was released in 2020.