ANDILE CELE is a writer and communications specialist, born and raisedin Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal. She was born in 1986, when apartheid was nearing itsend - to a mother who has worked as a domestic worker all her adult life. Shehas three siblings, one of them, a brother who is autistic and non-verbal.Andile’s advocacy for mental health awareness stems from the experiences theyfaced as a family – with a member who was and still is, for the most part, misunderstood. Andile has a degree in Journalism from the Tshwane Universityof Technology, and a Creative Writing and Theory of Literature degree from theUniversity of South Africa. She is an MA candidate at Stellenbosch University,where she is examining the depiction of intergenerational trauma in selectedSouth African women’s writing. She is the current holder of the GwenKnowles-Williams Bursary, administered by the English Academy of SouthernAfrica. In 2023 she was runner up in the Island Prize for hermanuscript Braids and Migraines. She dedicates her writing to her mother. Hershort fiction has been published in Botsotso and Short.Sharp.Stories.
