Liesl Jobson is a writer, photographer and musician. Her collection of prose poems and flash fiction, 100 Papers, won the 2006 Ernst van Heerden Award and her poetry collection, View
 from an Escalator, was published with a grant from the Centre for the Book. Her short story collection, Ride the Tortoise, is forthcoming from Jacana in 2013. She is a single sculler and an ocean rower, and plays the contrabassoon when the planets are happily aligned.