Makhosazana Xaba (born 10 July 1957) is a South African poet and short-story writer.
She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.
Xaba won the Deon Hofmeyr Award for Creative Writing (2005) for her unpublished short story "Running".
[2] Her poems have appeared in publications including Timbila, Sister Namibia, Botsotso, South African Writing, Green Dragon and Echoes,[2] and have been collected in These Hands (2005)[3] and Tongues of Their Mothers (2008).
[6][7] She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.