​I'm a South African who moved from Johannesburg to Toronto in 2012.  

​I started work on Hum If You Don’t Know the Words while doing my Creative Writing Certificate through the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. 

​I live with my long-suffering husband as well as a golden retriever, two cats and an overactive imagination.

Listen to interviews and podcasts in which I talk about growing up in South Africa,
as well as what inspired me to write Hum If You Don't Know the Words:

wuwm.com/post/author-bianca-marais-apartheid-growing-and-how-they-shape-her-novel#stream/0

soundcloud.com/alexgreenonline/stereo-embers-the-podcast-author-bianca-marais-hum-if-you-dont-know-the-words