From a 2018 bio: "Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Hawa Jande Golakai spent a vibrant childhood in Liberia. After the civil war in 1990 she bounced around the continent and considers herself a contemporary nomad and cultural sponge. She is a medical immunologist and with her son, lives between Monrovia and anywhere else she finds herself." She is an award-winning writer of nonfiction and fiction in several genres.