Vuyelwa Maluleke holds an MA in creative writing from the University currently known as Rhodes. She is a multi-disciplinary artist—a performance poet, scriptwriter and actor—and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. Shortlisted for the Writivism Short Story Prize (2019) and the Brunel University African Poetry Prize (2014), she is the author of the chapbook Things We Lost in the Fire. A slam champion of the Word N Sound 2015 Poetry League competition with an essay in Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction (2018), Maluleke, who is the co-creator of the choreopoem No One Wants a Black Woman with a Mouth, (2016) describes her work as an attempt to archive, retell, and give names to the fugitive experience of Black girlhood and womanhood.