Lauri Kubuitsile is a full time, award-winning writer living in Botswana. She writes for children, teens and adults and has numerous published books. She’s twice won the Golden Baobab Award for stories for children and was shortlisted in 2011 for The Caine Prize. Most recently, her YA novel, Signed, Hopelessly in Love (Tafelberg 2011)  was shortlisted for the MER Prize for Best Youth Novel. She blogs at http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.com