Mthobisi Myeni
Mthobisi Myeni is an emerging writer who hails from Ingwavuma, a small rural town in KwaZulu-Natal pocketed between South Africa’s borderlines with the Kingdom of Eswatini and Mozambique. He is currently engaged in the MA creative writing programme at Rhodes University, having completed his honours degree in creative writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. Mthobisi is a qualified educator who has taught high school English and social sciences for three years. He began writing habitually in 2022 as an apposite mode of expression, as he is a stammerer. His writing is inspired and informed by his immediate surrounds. His stories represent ordinary people whose voices are somehow dormant.
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Power: interview with Mthobisi Myeni, author of "The denizens"
2025-08-04"I see electricity as a character as well, as the story accentuates the power of electricity by showing how it controls and affects life. Lack or scarcity of electricity disrupts society and causes issues that affect everyone. Electricity empowers and connects people; it’s a power that nobody should be denied."