Nicky Falkof is a writer and academic who lives and works in Johannesburg, where she teaches in the Media Studies department of the University of Witwatersrand. She is the author of ‘The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa’ and co-editor of ‘Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City’. Her fiction has been published in New Contrast and The Kalahari Review.