Keletso Mopai is a South African writer and geologist. She studied for her MA in creative writing at the University of Cape Town. Her acclaimed debut collection of short stories, If You Keep Digging, was released by Blackbird Books in 2019. Mopai’s work has been published internationally in several journals, including Internazionale, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Kaleidoscope Magazine, and Catapult. In 2020, Mail & Guardian named her one of the Top 200 Young South Africans. Mopai was a writing fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study in early 2024.
Fiction
Fall 2024
The Wife
She knew, before Modajo ran to the house, that he was dead. How it had happened was what she wanted to know. Modajo rambled, too focused on theatrics, things that […]