Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the 2013 PEN International New Voices Award. He was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2015. Born in East London, South Africa, in 1986, he holds degrees in Film and Media and English Studies from the University of Cape Town, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award and an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship. His debut novel, The Reactive, was published in 2014, followed by Triangulum (2019) and Native Life in the Third Millenium (2020).