UNATHI SLASHA is a writer from Despatch, Port Elizabeth. His work has been published in several South African literary journals, namely: Ntinga, AERODOME, New Coin and Badilisha Poetry X-Change. He has given guest lectures on his own poetry, at NMMU.
An extract from his upcoming novel, The Seamy Side, is to be published in the first edition of The Coinage – a Journal of New South African Writing. He is currently doing his MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University.