Lindsay Wills was born in Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa in 1988. She teaches history and English at the Wynberg Girls’ High School and, as an author of textbooks, has produced teaching materials for use in history lessons. She qualified as a teacher in 2011 at the University of Cape Town and in 2016 she completed a master’s degree at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York in Great Britain. Her master’s thesis explored the depiction of women and gender in South African history books for high schools, and was awarded the 2016 Susan Anderson Memorial Prize, which honours exceptional work in the area of women’s history.