Pieter Odendaal is a South African poet, performer, translator and editor. He is currently busy with a practice-led PhD in how spoken word can engage with social-ecological change at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. His debut Afrikaans poetry collection, asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (like no mountains ever lived here), appeared at Tafelberg Publishers in 2018. He is the co-editor of the poetry translation anthologies Many tongues (2013) and ConVerse (2018).