SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU is the award-winning author of five novels, including The Creation of Half-Broken People, winner of the 2025 Sharjah Award for Best International Book, and The Theory of Flight, winner of the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Her work is published in South Africa and the United States and can be read in Arabic and Italian translation. Yale awarded Siphiwe a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2022, calling her a 'chronicler and a conjurer whose soaring imagination creates a Zimbabwean past made of anguish and hope, of glory and despair'. Ndlovu is also a filmmaker and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford University as well as a Master's in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.