About Hazel Frankel

Hazel Frankel lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, within ten kilometres of where she was born. A practising artist, calligrapher and teacher, Frankel has recently completed the MA Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Frankel’s poems have appeared in Carapace, Jewish Affairs, Jewish Quarterly, Coffee House Poetry and Iota. Hazel’s first collection Drawing from Memory was published by Cinnamon Press (UK) in 2007. Her novel, Counting Sleeping Beauties, shortlisted for the EU Literary Award in 2007, is published by Jacana next year.