Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. She moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family when she was two. After that country’s war of independence (1980) her family moved first to Malawi and then Zambia. She lives now in Wyoming with her husband, two daughters and a son. She has written two memoirs about her experiences in southern and south-central Africa. Her articles have appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker and Granta.