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.