Of Smoke Flesh and Bone

Pushcart Prize-nominated Abigail George is a South African-based blogger, editor, essayist, poet, novella and short story writer. She has lived for most of her life in the Northern areas of Port Elizabeth. She briefly attended film school at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg followed by a stint at a production company. She was the recipient of two grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg, one from the Centre for the Book in Cape Town and another from ECPACC in East London. Her work has been anthologised widely, appeared numerous times in print in South Africa, online in zines based in Asia, Australia, Europe, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and across Africa in countries as diverse as Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Turkey, Uganda and Cameroon on Africanwriter.com, Bakwa, Botsotso, Itch: The Creative Journal, Jalada, New Coin, New Contrast, the New Ink Review, Nthanda Review and overseas journals. She was born in 1979.