Malika Ndlovu’s words and performances feature on pages and stages across South Africa and globally for over 25 years. Having published two plays A Coloured Place and Sister Breyani, five solo poetry collections (Born in Africa but in 1999, Womb to World: A Labour of Love in 2002, Truth is both Spirit and Flesh in 2008, Invisible Earthquake : A woman’s journey through stillbirth in 2009, CLOSE in 2017) she co-founded or curated multimedia poetry events for various festivals and platforms, such as the Africa Centre’s Badilisha Poetry X- Change podcast, ICLEI – Africa’s annual RISE Africa Action Festival poets, the Open Book Festival , Franschhoek Literary Festival and the herstorical Cape Town-based women writers’ collectives WEAVE and the And The Word Was Woman Ensemble. Malika thrives on creative trans- disciplinary collaboration. She was also co-editor of WEAVE’s groundbreaking multi-genre anthology Ink @ Boiling Point: a 21st Century selection of Black women’s writing from the tip of Africa in 2000. As an applied arts practitioner consistently promoting healing through creative expression, she is a member of Sp(i)eel Art Therapies Collective networked to the broader SA Arts in Psychosocial Support community of practice. She features prominently in Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000 – 2018, ed. Makhosazana Xaba (UKZN Press, 2019), Collaborative Conversations: Celebrating 21 years of The Mothertongue Project (Modjaji Books, 2021) and Voices Unbound: Poems from the 8th International Symposium of Poetic Inquiry. (HSRC Press,2023). Malika’s keynote Re-turning to Ourselves, Our Wealth: Poetic reflections opened the 2023 Inaugural Conference of the African Humanities Association. Her latest book Griefseed centering on the regenerative nature of grief, published by Karavan Press, was launched in February 2025.