Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a writer, editor and publisher. She is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film at the University of Adelaide. She has a doctorate in Literature from New York University and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She was Head of the Department of Creative Writing at Wits from 2011 to 2023.She is co-founder and editor of the publishing company Fourthwall Books http://fourthwallbooks.com/, the former managing editor of David Krut Publishing https://davidkrut.com/ and a former editor-in-chief of the premier South African arts quarterly, Art Africa https://artafricamagazine.org/.Her first novel, The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House). It was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award and won the 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize. It appeared in French in 2019 (Editions Zoé) and in German in 2021 (Akono Verlag). Her second novel, Notes on Falling, was published by Umuzi/Penguin Random House in 2022. She has published essays and short stories in local and international journals, books and magazines. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.