Biography
Dawn Garisch was born in 1958 in Zimbabwe and moved to South Africa when she was nine. She is the author of two poetry collections: Difficult Gifts (2011) and Disturbance (2020). In 2007, her poem “Blood Delta” was awarded the DALRO prize, and in 2011, her poem “Miracle” won the EU Sol Plaatjie Poetry Award. As a novelist and poet, she is interested in trans-disciplinary work in science and art. Garisch is the founder of the Life Righting Collective, a writing course and mentorship program aimed to support writers in South Africa and guide them in engaging writing as a recovery process. She is a practicing medical doctor and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Poetry Collections
Difficult Gifts (Modjaji Books, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011); Disturbance (Karavan Press, Cape Town, South Africa 2020)
