Beverly Rycroft
Beverly Rycroft's debut poetry collection, Missing, won the 2012 Ingrid Jonker award for a South African debut poetry collection. Missing (Modjaji Books) is the story of severe illness, recovery and hope.
In 2011 Beverly was awarded second prize in the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Competition for her poem Has your Dad got a Bird yet? In 2000 she was joint winner of the Femina/Sensa Features competition.
Beverly is a graduate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and The University of the Witwatersrand. A qualified teacher, she has written for both local and international magazines, including The Lancet. Her poems have appeared in Carapace, New Coin, scrutiny2, New Contrast and the anthology Difficult to Explain. She has performed readings of her work in Cape Town, Hermanus, The Franschoek Literary Festival, East London and Johannesburg, many of them with the poet Finuala Dowling.
She hopes to have her second collection Calling from the Crowd, published in 2014. Beverly lives in Cape Town with her family.