PHUMLA KHANYILE Biography

Phumla Khanyile is first and foremost a mother of three, a grandmother, a daughter, and a sister. To some, she is a reliable friend. She studied Journalism at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa; looking back, she says this was her then misdirected heed to the love she has always had for writing. Her ventures into writing poetry are recent. She calls them her ‘means of self-release from emotions of things experienced personally or observed’. Her poems are heart-felt, and Phumla hopes they appeal to other emotional souls out there, talk healing, and preach understanding to those who have the need.

Phumla’ s work features in a number of poetry groups on Facebook and in the year 2015 she has been published in two poetry anthologies: Cupid (published in Zimbabwe in February) and Letters from Africa (published in Uganda in May) and Out of the Storm (published in US) . In the Month of September, her first book Love Notes hit the shores of Mzansi (South Africa) and braced Amazon pages.

Few of her poems have been also selected to be featured in the Nomads Choir Poetry Journal to be published in 2016.

What distinguishes Phumla from other writers is mainly her style of writing and tone. She writes from the heart and evokes strong emotions through her pieces.