Wendy Woodward 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.

She published The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives (2008) as well as numerous articles locally and internationally. She co-edited Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, Animals and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Recently her series of poems constituted a chapter in a celebratory volume for a high Tibetan Buddhist lama, Gyaltsab Rinpoche (Gyaltsab Book Trust, 2024; Wisdom, 2025). Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals in South Africa, North America and Australia.

She has published four volumes of poetry:

• Séance for the Body (Snailpress, 1994)
• Love, Hades and Other Animals (Protea, 2008)
• A Saving Bannister (Modjadji, 2015)
• Threshold (Quilled Ink Press, 2026)