Shari Daya

Shari Daya is a geographer and poet from Cape Town. Her poetry and essays explore the intricate and entangled geographies of lineage, place and the body. Her work has appeared in the literary journals Obsidian, Stanzas, New Contrast and the anthologies Africa! My Africa! and I wish I’d Said… Vol. 5: A Product of the AVBOB Poetry Project. She earned an MA in Creative Writing, with distinction, at the University of Cape Town in 2023.

Land | Lines is her first collection of poetry.