Stacy Hardy

Stacy M. Hardy is a writer, a teacher, a researcher, and an editor at Chimurenga, a pan-African journal.

Since 2014, Hardy is a lecturer in th
Creative Writing Department at Wits University
South Africa, and has taught creative writing in informal and non-academic contexts.

Hardy is a partner in Saseni, a creative writing teaching initiative that connects higher education and the creative arts in Africa, and the founder of Ukuthula, a pan-African initiative that develops new writing from and against gender-based violence. She has hosted interdisciplinary workshops and writing intensives in diverse locations, including Dakar, Kigali, Cairo, Tombwa (Angola), Nairobi, Lagos, Berlin, New York, and online, and facilitated graduate seminars and writing workshops worldwide. Hardy's writing has appeared in various publications worldwide, including The Johannesburg Review of Books, New Contrast, the New Orleans Review, The Evergreen Review, and many more.

Published works

Her published works includ
Because the Night
a collection of short fiction published b
Pocko Books
London, in 2015. In 2022, a new collection of her short fiction
Archéologie des Trous
was published in French translation b
Rot-Bo-Krik
Paris, and the English version was released b
Bridge Books
Chicago in 2023.

Awards

She has won multiple awards for her work, including the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction, and has been a finalist or semifinalist for many others, such as the 2022 Noemi Press Book Award and the 2018 Caine Prize.
In addition to her writing, Hardy is also involved in the production of multimedia works. She collaborates with Angolan composer, performer, and instrument designe
Victor Gama
and their works have been performed at various venues, including the Harris Theatre in Chicago, USA, the Department of Music Stanford University in Stanford, CA, USA, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In July 2022, a new iteration of their collaboration received a Prince Claus Fund Award for Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change award to open a pop up art laboratory in the Namib desert in Angola. Hardy’s one-woman performance piece
Museum of Lungs
which she created together with Egyptian director Laila Soliman and musician
Neo Muyanga
and Nancy Mounir, premiered at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in September 2018. It went on to have an extensive European tour from 2018 to 2019, including dates at Kaserne in Basel and Spielart in Munich.

Opera

Hardy wrote the libretto for Woman at Point Zero a new opera with composer Bushra El-Turk and director Laila Soliman, which won the prestigious Fedora - Generali Prize for Opera 2020. The opera premiered at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2022 and received critical acclaim. Future performances include appearances at the All Arias festival in deSingel Antwerpen
Opera Ballet VlaanderenConcertgebouw BruggeMuziekcentrum De Bijloke
Gent, Royal Opera House London, Shubbak Festival London, and Snape Maltings UK in 2023.

Networks and projects

In addition to her artistic pursuits, Hardy is involved in numerous interdisciplinary networks and research projects. She is a member o
Connectors
an international network that brings together academics and organisations playing important roles at the intersection of engagement between health and research. She is also one of the organisers of “Planetary Health and Postcolonial Dis-Ease,” an international research project focused on the multi-sited politics of environment and health, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
Currently, Hardy is a research fellow at the University of Chicago, where she is working on a research-and-performance-based collaborative endeavour with anthropologis
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
musicia
Neo Muyanga
and poet Daniel Borzutsky. Their project explores the politics and poetics of breath through a focus on colonial histories and postcolonial politics.

References

External links

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South African women writers
South African artists
Living people
South African women journalists
South African dramatists and playwrights
South African women dramatists and playwrights
Year of birth missing (living people)