Meg Vandermerwe: 

What's chet got to do with it?

 

Meg Vandermerwe was born in 1978 in South Africa and raised and educated in Switzerland and the UK. In 2008 she returned to Cape Town, the city of her birth, after twenty-two years abroad. She holds a degree in English Literature from Oxford University, and post graduate degrees in American literature and Creative Writing from Sussex University and the University of East Anglia respectively. Meg lecturers in Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape, where her responsibilities include, UWC CREATES, the first multi-lingual Creative Writing programme in South African Higher Education. She has published two works of fiction, This Place I Call Home (2010 ) and Zebra Crossing (2013). Both have been praised by critics, and Zebra Crossing was selected by The Cape Times as one of the ten best South African books published in 2013.

 

This presentation Chai-lights how the eighth letter in the Hebrew alphabet has inspired me as a gay, Jewish writer.