About me
I’m a writer and journalist. For more than a decade I reported for The Times of London and Agence France-Presse from China, Hong Kong, and India. I was most recently based in Guadalajara, Mexico, for my partner’s diplomatic posting.
I studied English Literature at Oxford University and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In 2017 and 2018 I was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize, the first writer to win twice. My short stories have been published in an anthology, Megacity, in the magazines Riptide and Prospect, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the BBC Short Story Award. I’ve been nominated for the Lucy Cavendish Prize and the Caledonia Novel Award. In 2019, I was selected for the London Library Emerging Writers Programme.
I now live in Forest Hill, London, where I’m working on a speculative novel and an essay about Antarctic exploration and grief. I am also an editor at the news outlet Semafor, and a freelance copywriter.
Read The Hikers.