Musawenkosi Khanyile was born in 1991 and raised in Nseleni, KwaZulu-Natal. He holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of Zululand, and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of the Western Cape. His first chapbook, The Internal Saboteur, appears in the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2019 New-Generation African Poets Boxset. He currently lives in Cape Town. His poetry collection, All the Places, was published in 2019.