About the Author

Nikhil Singh is an artist, writer, musician and film-maker. They have fronted the critically acclaimed South African art-rock bands, The Wild Eyes and Hi Spider, as well as released a plethora of solo albums under the moniker, "Witchboy." They have recently written and directed a feature-length film, Trillzone (2014), which was commissioned by the South African National Arts Festival as part of a J.G. Ballard symposium. As an artist, they have illustrated the graphic novels, The Ziggurat and Salem Brownstone, which was longlisted for The Branford Boase Award. Their work has also been featured in Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration, Dazed, I-D Online, Creative Review, The Times (UK), Mail & Guardian (UK), The Independent (UK), Rolling Stone (SA), GQ (SA), and featured as part of the COMICA festival exhibition at the ICA.

Reviews

"Taty Went West is not your average adventure story, and
Taty is a new kind of adventure heroine."
--New African Magazine

"A hallucinogenic post-apocalyptic carnival ride--Nikhil
Singh has a strange and intriguing mind."
--Lauren Beukes, author of Broken Monsters

"A wild, marauding vision on acid. Nikhil Singh creates
a world that threatens to leave the confines of the page.
Brilliantly compelling."
--Irenosen Okojie, author of Speak Gigantular

"Finding words to adequately describe Singh's writing is not
easy, but let's start with these: radiant, explosive, provocative.
These characters and their stories are remarkable. Taty
Went West is a dizzying ride of a novel that will leave
you breathless and wanting to get right back on again."
--Michael Thomas Ford, author of the Shirley Jackson
Award finalist, Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Tiptree
Award long list title LILY

"Imagine if Lewis Carroll had written five Alice adventures
and crammed them into one volume but veering into untried
perversions, new drugs, and a beatnik-Gothic vibe. Only out
of Africa. William S. Burroughs--only more imaginative."
--Geoff Ryman, author of the hypertext novel 253 and its
print version, 253: The Print Remix

"Nikhil Singh writes a prose as lush and crocodile-infested
as the rainforests in the Outzone."
--Mehul Gohil, winner of the 2010 Kwani? "The Kenya I
Live In" Short Story Prize

"Savvy, ultra-modern, Taty straddles the mediated realities
of our own continent and the groundbreaking possibilities of
our ongoing universal imaginaries."
--Billy Kahora, managing editor of Kenya's Kwani Trust

"There's no one else like Nikhil Singh and their intricate
illustrated dark visions of the future. Their individuality
stains their work in an eerie and pervasive manner making
for an incredible multi-layered experience for the reader."
--Short Story Day Africa