Puleng Lange-Stewart is a young poet, performer, illustrator and playwright from Johannesburg who is currently completing her Honours in Theatre Making at UCT's prestigeous Drama Department.

She is a queer black feminist, a mother, and a proud iconoclast who is committed to the fight for decolonization in South Africa and further afield.

Currently she is co-writing a theatre production (FIGS) which will be showing at this years National Arts Festival, presented by the UCT Drama Department. She has performed in a number of short films, theatre productions and has lent her voice to a number of national ad campaigns. She is currently working on her first independent short film.

Recently she was one of three writers from accross the country to be shorlisted for the PEN Student Writing Prize 2016

Puleng is based in Cape Town, with her son and partner, and works towards creating innovative and critical artwork, that actively challenges notions of patriarchy, heteronormativity , and the violence of racialised class structures that underpin much of our existence as South Africans.