Paul Williams’s memoir Soldier Blue won Book of the Year in South Africa, 2008 and his novel The Secret of Old Mukiwa won the Zimbabwe International Book Fair award for Young Adults in 2001. His educational readers have been set in schools across Africa and his stories and critical articles have been published in Meanjin, Text, Social Alternatives (Australia), Chicago Quarterly Review (USA), New Writing (UK) and New Contrast (South Africa). He has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, USA, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
