Janine Milne is a Literature and Creative Writing graduate from UNISA. She has somehow accumulated 5 dogs in her mountain cottage near the sea and is thus a full-time dog slave while earning her bread from freelance writing. She has had poetry published in three Sol Plaatje European Poetry Award Anthologies and Stanzas and won the MacGregor Poetry Prize in 2017. She has also previously published a short story in the Short Sharp Story Anthology and the Bloody Parchment Horror Anthology. She is currently toiling on her first novel.