<p><strong>Wendy Woodward </strong>is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, where her research and publications focused on Postcolonialism and Human-Animal Studies.</p><p> </p><p>She published <em>The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives</em> (2008) as well as numerous articles locally and internationally. She co-edited<em> Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, Animals and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds</em>. Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Recently her series of poems constituted a chapter in a celebratory volume for a high Tibetan Buddhist lama, <em>Gyaltsab Rinpoche </em>(Gyaltsab Book Trust, 2024; Wisdom, 2025). Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals in South Africa, North America and Australia.</p><p> </p><p>She has published four volumes of poetry:</p><ul><li><em>Séance for the Body</em> (Snailpress, 1994)</li><li><em>Love, Hades and Other Animals </em>(Protea, 2008)</li><li><em>A Saving Bannister </em>(Modjadji, 2015)</li><li><em>Threshold</em> (Quilled Ink Press, 2026)</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p>
