Kobus Moolman is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer of short fiction who was born in 1964 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is a disability activist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape.
 
He has published twelve collections of poetry; one collection of short fiction; and two collections of plays. He has won numerous awards including the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry (2016), the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award (2013), the South African Literary Award for Poetry (2010), a 2009 Pushcart nomination, and the Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut collection of poetry (2002). His plays have also won South African and international awards and have been staged locally and abroad.
 
Kobus Moolman has edited several significant books and journals. In 1995 he co-founded the poetry journal Fidelities and continued to edit the journal until it closed in 2007. The journal was a valuable entry point for numerous developing poets, including Quilled Ink Press founder, Adiela Akoo, allowing established and new voices to share the same published space.​
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Kobus now lives in the small village of Riebeek West with his wife, Julia, and a tortoise called Angus.​​​​​​​