Lauren Liebenberg was born in Rhodesia in 1972 and grew up during the civil war there. When still a child, she left what had become Zimbabwe, following her gold-miner father south to Johannesburg, South Africa. Lauren attended Brescia House, a Catholic girls' school in Johannesburg. After completing university, she lived in England for several years and travelled extensively in Europe and Asia, before returning to Johannesburg, where she still lives today. She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand's Wits Business School with an MBA and worked for several years in investment banking, where she published in the field of financial markets. She wrote her first novel while on an overland trip through Southern Africa and now writes full time. She is married and has two young sons. Her husband is still wondering when she'll get a real job again.