Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist. Her previous novels include the international bestseller The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters, Moxy Land and Zoo City, for which she won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids' animated shows for Disney UK and Millimages in France.