Melinda Ferguson

Award-winning author, journo and publisher, Melinda Ferguson burst onto the local literary scene with her hard-hitting addiction memoir, Smacked in 2005, followed by Hooked and Crashed. Bamboozled, published in 2022, is her latest memoir.

In 2013 she launched her own book publishing imprint with Jacana. In 2020 she joined forces with NB Publishers as Melinda Ferguson Books and over the last decade has published close to 100 titles. These include the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award winner in 2016, Rape – A South African Nightmare by Dr Pumla Dineo Gqola.