Karen Jennings is a South African writer. She was post-doctoral fellow writer-in-residence at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past, Stellenbosch University and now lectures in Creative Writing at North West University. She was given the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award, and won the Africa Region Prize of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her first novel, Finding Soutbek, was shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize. Karen co-founded The Island Prize for unpublished African authors.
