Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screenplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller, "The Shining Girls," about a time-traveling serial killer, "Zoo City," a phantasmagorical Joburg noir which won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award, and the neo political thriller "Moxyland." She worked as a journalist, a show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the "New York Times "best-selling graphic novel, "Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom." She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
