Poet

Based: Cape Town

I  am a daughter of the mountain and the sea, born and raised in Camissa, South Africa. She works as a poet, performer and creative writing teacher & mentor. Her work has been published in anthologies, journals and non-fiction books globally. Some of Toni work includes Krotoa-Eva’s Suite – a cape jazz poem in three movements – in collaboration with filmmaker Kurt Orderson (Amsterdam and Cape Town, 2016); I Come To My Body As A Question with dotdotdot dance (UK & Sweden, 2016 – 2020); and  forgetting. and memory with vangile gantsho & Vusumzi Ngxande, at the Virtual National Arts Festival (South Africa, 2020). from 2018 to 2019, She founded and ran Athlone Young Poets, at Belgravia High School in Cape Town, and was the founding curator of Poetica at Open Book Festival from 2013-2014.

She was named in the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African list of 2013, and have an MA Writer/Teacher (Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London, where I was a 2014/2015 Chevening Scholar.