Sewn In Red

Benedicte Kusendila used to be a member of the

South-African Afrikaans Writers Guild (“Afrikaanse

Skrywersvereniging”).

She received an M.A. in Germanic Languages,

English and Applied Linguistics, from the Catholic

University of Louvain and holds an M.Phil-degree in

Education and Applied Language Studies from the

University of Cape Town.

Her poems have been published in various online

magazines and also appear in printed literary journals.

Sink!, her first short story, appeared in print in Rad

Publishing’s “Wanderlust” issue (2017).

Benedicte was longlisted for the 2017 Cosmonauts

Avenue Poetry Prize.