Stacy Hardy is a writer based in Grahamstown, South Africa. She is an editor at the pan African journal Chimurenga and a teacher in Rhodes University’s MA in Creative Writing Programme. Her short fiction has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Donga (SA), Chimurenga (Africa), Ctheory (Canada), Evergreen Review (USA), documenta (Germany), Glanta (Sweden), Black Sun Lit (USA) and more. Because the Night, an anthology of her fiction was published by Pocko Books, London, in 2015, and she is currently working on a new collection that explores the intersection of the human body and the body of text via the tropes of disease and animality.