Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is a 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 from Ohio University. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and she wrote, directed and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. Her first novel, The Theory of Flight won the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize in South Africa. Her second and third novels, The History of Man and The Quality of Mercy, respectively, have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Awards. In 2022, Ndlovu was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. In 2023, her story "The Postman" in the Yale Review, based on a character in The Quality of Mercy, was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors Award. Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Ndlovu has returned to her beloved city after many years of living abroad.