She is the author of the novel Small Moving Parts (Cape Town: Kwela, 2009), for which she won both the M-Net Award for fiction and the Herman Charles Bosman prize in 2010. She is also an award-winning poet. As a creative writer and academic interested in exploring various forms of artistic practice she has collaborated with the Flatfoot Dance Company in producing poetry text to accompany the production Premonitions and, as part of Poetry Africa 2006, she exhibited Circumstanzas, an assemblage of text/object ‘odd-boxes’ intended to highlight a poesis of found object and crafted artifact. She has previously published articles on the art of Willem Boshoff and Leora Farber, and on the experimental fiction of Ivan Vladislavić as a form of conceptual art.