Danila Botha

Danila Botha is a fiction writer based in Toronto. Her first collection of short stories, Got No Secrets, was praised by the Globe and Mail, the Chronicle Herald and the Cape Town Times. It was also named one of Britannica’s Books of the Year (Canadian short stories) in 2011, and was also published in South Africa. Her debut novel, Too Much on the Inside, was shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit award, and won a Book Excellence Award for Contemporary Novel. Her critically acclaimed sophomore collection of short stories, For All the Men (and Some of the Women)I've Known was named a finalist for the 2017 Trillium Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. Danila teaches Creative Writing at the University of Toronto and at the Humber College School For Writers. She studied Creative Writing at York University, and Humber's School For Writers and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Guelph University. She is also working on her second novel and on a new collection of short stories.