K. S. Augustin is a child of the global South. In the past, she has run her own IT consultancy business, bookshop, gym, swimming pool business and martial arts school. So far in her life, she has been a corporate trainer, lecturer, satirist, martial arts instructor, project manager, political essayist, small business owner and is now proud to call herself a fiction writer. Together with her husband, they have lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. They adore their two children and tolerate as necessary evils their two grumpy, fur-shedding cats. Her website is at www.ksaugustin.com and, should you wish to drop her a line, you can contact her at KS@ksaugustin.com.