Karen Lazar is a lecturer in English and Professional Literacies at the Pius Langa School of Advocacy in Johannesburg, at St Augustine College SA, and at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She was educated at Wits, BA to Phd in English; her MA and PhD are feminist studies of Nadine Gordimer’s work. Since having a fairly severe stroke, Lazar has published in medical humanities, including two books: Hemispheres: inside a stroke (Cape Town: Modjadji Press, 2011) and Echoes (Johannesburg: Quartz Press, 2021). She lives in Johannesburg.