Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki is author of the romance novels NaiRobbery Cocktail, Nairobi Cocktail, Immigrant Cocktail, Cocktail from the Savannah and A Cocktail of Unlikely Tales. She is a long-term newspaper columnist, Gíkúyú language interpreter/transcriber, ghost-writer, editor, host of YouTube channel Author's Feet, village life enthusiast, and an avid mountaineer. Empress views self-happiness as the most important task that life has bestowed on humans and that must be relentlessly pursued. She is married and a mother of two girls.