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. Thinking about books in conversation with each other. Making fantasy book lists for example as in ‘7 Short Novels About Characters Who Make Transgressive Choices’, a short piece that I recently put together for Electric Literature.