"Musodza knows the value of creating a cyclical story, but he also understands that themes and time can be cyclical, too. ...The malaise of the past becomes the terror of the present, and good men easily become bad when the situation demands. Musodza's skill is to foster empathy within the reader for Stanley, but also for the hitchhiker, and then to demolish the feelings for both. In the end, there are no winners, and yesterday's dog is tomorrow's master. And of course he wants his own dog, too." - Damian Kelleher, 2010 “‘When the Trees Were Enchanted’ by Masimba Musodza is, by any measure, an extraordinarily fine work of fiction.- Wendy Bousfield, FutureFires.net, 2016 Masimba Musodza’s characters live in a morally gray world where the debate about whether the ends justify the means rages on. Lots of little details that, upon a second or third reading, take on a deeper significance.- Alex Brown, Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for October 2021, Tor.com Masimba was born in Zimbabwe, but has lived much of his adult life in the UK, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has published over 40 pieces of short fiction, mostly on the Speculative Fiction genre spectrum, in anthologies and periodicals around the world and online. He has also published two novels and a novella in ChiShona, and a collection of short stories in English. He was listed in Geoff Ryman's 100 African Writers Of Speculative Fiction He has become a regular at the Festival of the Battle For Ideas, held annually in London. He contributes to Sticks & Stones, the premier Black British magazine in the North East of England.