Kobus Moolman

Kobus Moolman is a South African writer. He has published ten collections of poetry, two collections of plays, a volume of short stories, and edited several anthologies and collections of essays on disability and health. His most recent collection of poetry is Fall Risk (uHlanga Press, 2024) that uses poetic and linguistic experimentation to express the language of the body. In this stark sequence of new poems, Kobus navigates disability and ill health to convey what our bodies cannot say for themselves. Kobus is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He has won numerous national and international awards for his work. The newly edited collection of essays, Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa: Inclusive Explanations (Routledge, 2025), was edited by him with Elvis Imafidon, Emelda Ngufor Samba and Charlotte Baker. He lives in Riebeek West with his wife Julia Buss, who is a ceramist.