Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has been a Canadian citizen since 2003. As an art director, she has worked on marie claire, Vogue Australia, Vogue Living, Cosmopolitan, Canadian Living, and she magazines. She is the author of four novels: The Hungry Mirror (winner of the ippy Gold Medal for fiction in 2011, long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards); West of Wawa (one of four Chatelaine Book Club Editor's Picks, awarded the ippy Silver Medal for Fiction in 2012); A Glittering Chaos, (awarded the ippy Silver Medal for Popular Fiction in 2014); and The Witchdoctor's Bones, released in 2014 to literary acclaim.