Ambre Nicolson is a recovering magazine editor who lives and writes in Cape Town. Before and after obtaining degrees in English and journalism at the university currently known as Rhodes, she was a cleaner in London, a wall painter in Barcelona, a language student in Shanghai and a book researcher in New York. After 15 years spent writing for publications in South Africa and beyond she still believes that stories can change the world. In 2017 Modjaji published her first book, An A to Z of Amazing South African Women.