Helena Kriel Author

Helena Kriel is a writer, producer, award-winning screenwriter and playwright. Her bestselling memoirs, The Year of Facing Fire – A Memoir and Meditating with Rhinos, explore the all too delicate relationships humans have with each other and with the natural world. A dedicated conservationist, she is the founder of Baby Rhino Rescue, a non-profit which partners with organisations in South Africa and Kenya that are committed to saving the rhino. She leads immersive creative and spiritual journeys into the Indian Himalayas and the South African bush. Born in Johannesburg, she divides her time between South Africa and the United States. Dr Don Pinnock is an environmental and investigative journalist with Daily Maverick and former editor of the travel magazine Getaway. He is a criminologist and historian by training and has written or co-authored 18 books, many of them on environmental issues. These include The Last Elephants and The Last Lions, which address the alarming state of the lion and elephant populations in Africa. He has won two Mondi Awards for his environmental columns, the City Press-Tafelberg Non-Fiction Award for his book Gang Town, and his novel on Khoisan magic, Rainmaker, was shortlisted for the European Union Literary Award.