Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is a Windham Campbell Prize winning (2022) writer, filmmaker and academic who holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, as well as master's degrees in African Studies and Film. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and she wrote, directed and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. She lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her debut novel, The Theory of Flight, won the Barry Ronge Prize for fiction in South Africa. The History of Man is her second novel.