Michelle Edwards obtained a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University in 2005. She has lived in Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Zambia, and currently lives in South Africa with her husband and two children. Go Away Birds is her first novel, which was long-listed for the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award in 2018. When she's not working in marketing or writing her second novel (very, very slowly), Michelle spends her time boating with her children, trying to train her boisterous puppy, reading romantic fiction and watching the trees around her home for sightings of her favourite grey birds.