Werner Pretorius holds degrees in Publishing and English from the University of Pretoria and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. His stories and short fiction have appeared in Something Wicked Magazine, Jungle Jim, Prufrock Magazine and A Look Away (now defunct). He also contributed to the collection The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories, published as an e-publication by Penguin Random House in 2013. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Short Sharp Stories Award.