I’m the author of Wanderland, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Book of the Year, and for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. It has featured in a number of ‘Best Books’ lists, including for the Financial Times and National Geographic. My first book, Wild Times won the Adele Evans Award and was a finalist at the Travel Media Award. I’ve also contributed to a number of anthologies including the landmark Women on Nature.

As a journalist and travel writer, my byline has appeared in a wide variety of publications, among them The Guardian, i-paper, Independent, The Times, Sunday Times Style, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, TIME magazine, National Geographic Traveller, Geographical, Resurgence and the Ecologist and countless others, both print and online.

I started my career in book publishing, working on the editorial side at Penguin Books, and later at Macmillan and Young Picador.

These days, when not writing, I coach writers and speak at festivals and events. In 2021, notably, I delivered the inaugural Jan Morris Lecture at the Hay Festival in Wales. I’ve been a judge on the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Book of the Year, and my texts and poems have been displayed in London, including at the Winter Light exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre, where I was the sole writer among twenty visual artists. In 2019 I was named one of National Geographic’s Women of Impact. You can read the interview here. I am currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at St. Mary’s University, in Twickenham.

I was born in London to Indian parents who were raised in South Africa, and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. I received my B.A in Geography from Canada's oldest university, McGill, in Montreal and my M.A. in English Literature at Avignon University in France. I also have a diploma in French Languages and Literature from Aix Marseille University and I studied Journalism at the London College of Communications.

Following stints in Hong Kong, Provence and Tbilisi, I now live in South West London.