Heidi Zuva’s lifelong love is story, in all its forms. She was born in South Africa to a German librarian and a Zimbabwean professor, and she lived there with her pet tortoise, imaginatively named Tortoise, for the first four years of her life.

As a child, she aspired to be a witch. Instead, she graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy with her year’s science prize, then from Harvard College with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology. She’s a former model and occasional actress, an always-writer, a retired baddie, and a one-time epigenetics researcher.

Heidi’s career trajectory really doesn’t make any sense, unless you consider her main interest: people and their stories. In and out of her clothes, she’s always been deeply interested in human motivation, loneliness, and the parts of ourselves that we don’t share. Frankly, she’s a nosy bitch.

Heidi now lives a quiet life in London with a husband she loves an embarrassing amount and a five year old whose smile makes the sun rise. They have three cats and she’s always mixing up some potion or other (some might call it dinner, others a hex) so basically she managed to become a witch after all. 

Wonderfully, it is not yet The End.