An
internationally
award-winning and bestselling South African writer
Lauren Beukes’s
followed her first book, the non-fiction MAVERICK: EXTRAORDINARY
WOMEN FROM SOUTH AFRICA’S PAST, with the novel MOXYLAND. Her next
three novels, the Arthur
C. Clarke Award-winner
ZOO CITY, the
British Fantasy Award-winner
THE SHINING GIRLS,
and BROKEN
MONSTERS (2014) garnered
Beukes overwhelming acclaim.

Her
graphic novel work includes Vertigo’s SURVIVOR’S
CLUB,
the FABLES
spin-off
FAIREST,
and Wonder
Woman.
Beukes’s nonfiction has been published in numerous
magazines
including THE
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER,
THE
SUNDAY TIMES,
MARIE
CLAIRE,
and
ELLE.

Beukes’s debut
collection SLIPPING
AND OTHER STORIES
is
coming this
October from
Tachyon.

All
of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Lauren a happy birthday. May it not be
filled with too many time travel conundrums.