Stuart Payne

Stuart Payne was born and lives in Cape Town. He studied English at the University of Cape Town, later taking French classes at the Alliance française du Cap and working in animal rescue. He was the winner of South Africa's 2022 New Contrast National Poetry Prize for his poem "Words for Dia! kwain".

His first book, Voices From Another Room, was published in 2018 and The Sun, the Moon & Ripe Cucumbers followed in 2025.