TED BOTHA has worked for Reuters in New York and has been published in The New York Times, Esquire, The Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveler and Outside. He has written numerous books, including Daisy de Melker, the forensic thriller The Girl with the Crooked Nose and Flat/White, about living as an immigrant in a chaotic and battered tenement building in Harlem, New York. He has also written the novel The Animal Lover. See more at www.tedbotha.com.