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Tanya Farber is a writer, journalist and communications specialist living in Cape Town with her husband, two daughters, four dogs and many succulents. She grew up in Johannesburg and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Wits. She also holds an honours (achieved cum laude) in applied linguistics, and another honours in history and gender studies. Over more than two decades in journalism she has covered arts and culture, social justice, science and the environment. Trained in narrative non-fiction, she has won three international human rights journalism awards and three national awards. She is the author of two non-fiction books published in South Africa, and three true crime novels published in the United Kingdom. She is currently working on her first fictional novel.