Rachel Zadok  is the author of Gem Squash Tokoloshe (shortlisted for The Whitbread First Novel Award and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize). In 2011, she started Short Story Day South, the southern-African precursor to Short Story Day Africa. Her second novel, The Gathering Station, is due out April 2013. She lives in Cape Town with her husband and her daughter, and occassionally blogs.