Biography
Megan Hall was born in 1972 in Cape Town. She is best known for her collection of poems, Fourth Child, which won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 2008. She went to the University of Cape Town for her undergraduate degree in English and Latin. She was the publishing manager for dictionaries and school literature in English at Oxford University, South Africa. She edited poetry and fiction for New Contrast. She took part in Young Voices, the 2004 South African Online Writers’ Conference and was selected for the 2005 Crossing Borders program, the British Council-sponsored writers’ mentorship.
