KELETSO MOPAI is the author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging (2019) and the novel We Belong to the Trees, and her work has been published internationally in Internazionale,The Johannesburg Review of Books, Kaleidoscope Magazine, and Catapult. She is the recipient of the Igby Prize for Nonfiction, was named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans and has been shortlisted for the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the Writivism Prize, and is currently working on her second story collection, The Mothers.