Susan Mann is a writer living in Cape Town, South Africa, near the point where two oceans collide. She also spends time in a village in Normandy, where the people are few and the cows are plush. (Those who live there are called Les Acourrus – the people who run towards.)

Since 2002 she has taught part-time at the University of Cape Town, where she completed an MA in Creative Writing, before studying further in France.

Her first novel, One Tongue Singing (2004) won the University of Cape Town book award, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times fiction award, and translated into French and Swedish. Her second, Quarter Tones (2007) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. Both novels were prescribed reading in the Department of English at the University of Vienna.