Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon’s most recent poetry collection is The History of Intimacy (Kwela Books, 2018). Her previous collections include A hundred silences (Kwela Books, 2006);The Dream in the Next Body (Kwela Books, 2005);  and The Museum of Ordinary Life (DaimlerChrysler, 2005); and the monograph Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid. 

Baderoon’s honors include the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry and a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. 

Baderoon is the codirector of the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University, where she is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and African studies. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.