Blaize is a writer from Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, now living on the Kapiti coast in New Zealand. His work has appeared in Omenana, Strange Horizons, and Nature, among others, and has been translated into Bengali, Italian, and Mandarin. He has been a finalist for both the Nommo Award for short fiction and the Short Story Day Africa prize. In his spare time he likes to think about philosophy, brains, and computers.