Adrian Fleur is a South African writer based in Minneapolis, United States.

She’s been published with Beyond Words, Sunspot Lit, Writers Space Africa, Decolonial Passage, and elsewhere.

Her short story ‘The Key Is To Keep Saying Sorry’ was awarded Best of Fiction in Sunspot Lit’s 2024 Rigel Contest. Her other work has been longlisted for Fish Publishing’s Short Memoir Prize and The Masters Review’s Fiction Awards, shortlisted for New Millennium’s 49th Writing Awards, and placed as a semi-finalist in the Short(er) Fiction Contest by American Short Fiction.

She writes about identity, about memory and displacement, and about the complexities of growing up in a country traumatised by Apartheid and colonisation.

She’s currently at work on a collection of essays tentatively titled ‘Love You, Idiot’ which explores queerness, motherhood, divorce, sex, grief, friendships, our never-ending vulnerabilities and regrets, and surviving capitalism in America.

She’s also working on a fiction novel about a dead man and a lake.

When she’s not writing, she’s painting botanical portraits that wouldn’t be out of place at the Home Goods clearance aisle, or hiking along the Mississippi in minus-ridiculous degrees with her giant Chow-Shepherd mix Ruby.