Benedicte Kusendila used to be a member of the South-African Afrikaans Writers Guild ("Afrikaanse Skrywersvereniging"). She received an M.A. in Germanic Languages, English and Applied Linguistics, from the Catholic University of Louvain and holds an M.Phil-degree in Education and Applied Language Studies from the University of Cape Town. Her poems have been published in various online magazines and also appear in printed literary journals. Sink!, her first short story, appeared in print in Rad Publishing's "Wanderlust" issue (2017). Benedicte was longlisted for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize.