Rahla Xenopoulos is the author of “A Memoir of Love and Madness.’ (Random House) and the novels ‘Bubbles,’ (Penguin.) ‘Tribe’ (Penguin) and ‘The Season of Glass.’ (Penguin). She has published short stories in the anthologies, ‘Women Flashing’, ‘Twist’ and ‘Just Keep Breathing.’ She has written for The Sunday Times, Glamour Magazine, and Oprah Magazine. Her latest book, The Season of Glass was a finalist for the Sunday Times Literary Award. She gives writing workshops to underprovided children and is on the boards of SA-Yes. And Short Story Day Africa, and teaches writing in South Africa, the U.K., as well as in Greece and New York, and has worked with both experienced writers and novices from all over the world.

Rahla lives in New York with her husband and teenage triplets.