Clea Koff was born in England in 1972, and is the daughter of a Tanzanian mother and an American father. Her childhood was
spent in England, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and the United States. When she was only 23 years old, she was invited to be a forensic
expert for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was the youngest member of the very first team to arrive in Kibuye in 1996. Clea Koff participated in seven UN missions in Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia. She was Deputy Chief Anthropologist in the Tribunal morgue in Kosovo in 2000. Clea Koff is now based in
Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. The Bone Woman was published by Atlantic in 2004.
