About the Author

Keith Gottschalk published his collection of prison & other protest poems, Emergency Poems, in 1992. He served on the executive of the Congress of South Africa Writers, COSAW, in the 1980s, and today hosts the Lansdowne Local Writers' Group. He has performed and published over 160 poems, the latter in many magazines. A Fulbright scholar, Keith lectures in Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape.