| Intro | South African poet |
| Is | Poet |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1 January 1957 |
| Age: | 63 years |
Makhosazana Xaba (born 1957) is a South African poet. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women’s health specialist in NGO’s, as well as writing on gender and health.
She has an MA in creative writing from Wits University and is working on a biography of Noni Jabavu. Xaba’s poems have been published in These Hands (2005) and Tongues of Their Mothers (2008). A book of her short stories, Running and other stories, was published in 2013.
Works
- These hands: poems. Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005. Poetry.
- Tongues of their mothers. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. Poetry.
- Running and other stories. Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2013. Fiction.