Bianca marais biography

Bianca Marais holds a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, where she now teaches creative writing.

Before becoming an author, she started a corporate training company and volunteered with Cotlands, where she assisted care workers in Soweto with providing aid for HIV/AIDS orphans and their caregivers.

She champions the Own Voices movement in her country of birth, South Africa, where she runs the Eunice Ngogodo Own Voices Initiative to encourage and empower women of colour to tell their own stories.

Bianca is also the author of two novels that take place against the rich and sometimes tragic history of her native South Africa.

Set against the backdrop of the 1976 Soweto uprising, Hum if You Don’t Know the Words is a page-turner that provides a satisfying emotional journey. And now in paperback, Bianca’s second novel, If You Want to Make God Laugh — a rich, unforgettable stor