Who am I?

I was born in Guilin, China, and I was moved to the United Kingdom aged five. I grew up in the seaside town of Hastings in southeast England. 

I have a bachelors degree in multimedia journalism from Bournemouth University. Following a summer working as a camera assistant for OBS at the London 2012 Olympic Games, I decided to move to Beijing.

My first job in the Chinese capital was listings editor at the magazine, The Beijinger, promoted from paid intern.

I was based in Beijing from 2012 to 2018.

These six years were a heady, adventurous, difficult, lonely, rewarding, thrilling, impactful yet oddly unsatisfying time, like a tempestuous love affair. 

I have travelled to Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. And I often wrote reports and features about my host countries.   

From about two years I was a roving, nomadic freelance journalist endlessly criss-crossing southeast and east Asia.   

Nowadays, I’m all about literature. I signed with a literary agent in spring 2021.  

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