I’m fortunate to live in an open space traversed by three apex predators, two of the sky: martial eagle and crowned eagle. There are a number of different types of birds of prey, I think of home affectionately as the Raptorarium. Land visitors are given away only by poo or prints, life is a constant investigation as to what's really going on in this wild reality.
Between investigations, I write.
Brief Author Bio:
Melissa Gow is a writer, children's book author and illustrator. She grew up in Johannesburg and holds a BArch from the University of the
Witwatersrand. She lives in Knysna, South Africa, with some dogs, ducks, chickens and a pig. Her short stories have
appeared in the South African Literary Journal, New Contrast, and poems in New
Coin. Her story The Dead Man’s Toes
was shortlisted for the Arts24/Kwela Books Corona Fiction competition.