Terry-Ann Adams hails from Eldorado Park. The 20-something writer spent their childhood playing with imaginary friends and writing poems, and started their writer’s journey at the tender age of 12 when they wrote a mini memoir detailing their struggle to be accepted into mainstream schooling as a person with albinism.

A cultural commentator, they haven’t stopped writing since then. Terry-Ann’s work, written in English and Afrikaans, is inspired by and predominantly features Coloured people of South Africa. Their debut novel, Those Who Live In Cages, was inspired by their grandmother Frances ‘Poppie’ Adams. “My grandmother always wanted me to tell her story, the stories of Coloured women stuck in the townships of Johannesburg, who are often forgotten by society.”