ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born and raised in South Africa. In his twenties, he moved between the Middle East, Europe, and North America, before returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986. Since then, he has worked as an organizer and educator in the South African trade union and social housing movements. He is a writer, songwriter, and singer, a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group, and sits on the Botsotso Publishing editorial board. His short fiction has been published in three collections: Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage, and Meditations of a Non-White White. He has received the Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Short Fiction. ANNA VARNEY was born in 1959 in South Africa. She is an artist, poet and psychotherapist.

As a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group from 1995 to 2001, she was the group's first book designer and created the logo and style for what became Botsotso Publishing. This distinctive combining of Word and Image sets Botsotso apart from other South African publishers and has greatly contributed to its success as a multi-disciplinary bridge. Her poetry can be found in the Botsotso Jester collections We Jive like This and Dirty Washing as well as on the group's poetry/soundscape albums which can be accessed via the Botsotso website (www.botsotso.org.za).