Davids (born 1971) is a South African writer and editor who is best known for her novels The Blacks of Cape Town,[1] (2013), How To Be A Revolutionary,[2] (2022) and her short stories.
She previously worked in arts marketing as the marketing manager for the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and communications manager for the Alexander Kasser Theatre at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
Davids has contributed to publications such as Lapham's Quarterly,[3] the Johannesburg Review of Books,[4] the South African Sunday Times[5] and Wasafiri,[6] and her writing has appeared in anthologies such as Twist, an anthology of short stories by South African women (published by Struik, October 2006) and in African Pens: New Writing from Southern Africa (published by New Africa Books, April 2007).
[7] Davids has lived in Switzerland, the United States of America and Shanghai, China, and now resides on the edge of District Six in Cape Town, South Africa.
[11] Davids is as strong advocate of South African literature: I would love to see a concerted, co-ordinated effort from civil society, writers, publishers, government and nongovernmental organisations to alter our reading habits (and trajectory) and the space given to literature in our country.