Liesl Jobson is a South African writer. She has authored 100 Papers: A Collection of Prose Poems and Flash Fiction (Botsotso, 2008) and a volume of poetry, View from an Escalator (Botsotso, 2008). She was awarded a grant from the National Library of South Africa (2007), the Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award (2006), the POWA Women’s Writing Poetry Prize (2005), and received a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2008). She is the editor of Poetry International’s South African domain and will be reading at the Frank O’Connor Short Story Festival and Poetry Africa this year.