As a child, Kiare wanted to live on a farm, run an orphanage and be on stage. As an adult, she found herself working for academics, with prisoners and on nightshifts. Her short stories have been published in anthologies, broadcast on the radio and shortlisted in competitions, including the BBC National Short Story Award. Nightshift is her first novel, written while studying for a PhD. She grew up in South Africa and lives in London.

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Like most writers I love reading and thinking about books in conversation with each other, for example as in 7 Short Novels About Characters Who Make Transgressive Choices, a piece in Electric Literature.

Recently, I was a guest on The Hypothetical Bookshelf, a desert island discs podcast for books, hosted by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. We spoke about five books in my ever shifting list, and what draws me to writing that is raw, morally complicated, and unafraid of the truth. Listen to the conversation here.

A little before that, I was interviewed on the Reading and Writing Podcast, which features interviews with authors about books, writing habits and how they got started writing. Catch the episode here.