Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana author of House of Margins and The Silence of Wilting Skin. Her novel, Womb City, is a Nommo-Award winner, an Ignyte and Locus Award finalist. Her novel, The Bloodwinds, is forthcoming from Knopf. A Caine Prize finalist, she received support from the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.