Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans.[1] Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award,[2] and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award,[3] in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020.
Du Plessis was born in Montreal, but raised predominantly in Bloemfontein, South Africa.[4] She is currently a graduate student at Montreal's Concordia University. Since 2018, she has been developing Deep Curation, a practice of poetry reading organization that places poets' works in deliberate thematic and conceptual dialogue in performance.