David Clapper was born in London, UK in 1962, and after two months packed up his nappy and hightailed it for Southern Africa. He spent the next eighteen years growing up in the civil war that was once called Rhodesia. He left what had become Zimbabwe in 1980 and bummed around the world with headband and backpack for six years, studying at various institutions of higher learning along the way. He met his wife Myriam in the desert and finally decided to set up his tent in the Netherlands (a wet place) in 1987. He is still married, and has four kids. He started writing by accident in 2008, thinking he was joining a workshop on Buddhist meditation. Apart from short stories, which he writes when the mood hits him, he is currently working on a novel.