I’m an author, journalist, writing coach and tutor. My first book, Wild Times (Brad) won the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Adele Evans Award and was a finalist at the Travel Media Award. My second, Wanderland, (Bloomsbury) was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing and for the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Book of the Year. It has featured in a number of ‘Best Books’ lists, including for National Geographic and for The Financial Times, who called it ‘witty and engaging’ . Times Literary Supplement said ‘[it has] an assurance and humour which both charm and convince.’ The Sunday Express described the book as a ‘page turner’. and The Observer praised it as a ‘breath of fresh air’ and made it a Book of the Day. Wanderland was also a Bookseller Editor’s Choice. I’ve also contributed to a number of anthologies including the landmark Women on Nature, and the forthcoming Freewheeling (Daunt).

When not writing long-form, I lead creative non-fiction and travel writing workshops and coach aspiring writers. I’ve spoken widely at festivals and events. (See here for a list.) 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. Between 2022-2024 I was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. I am currently an Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund, mentoring new Fellows working in universities across London.

As a journalist, 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. In 2019 I was named one of National Geographic’s Women of Impact.

I started my career in book publishing, working as an editorial copywriter at Penguin Books, and later at Pan Macmillan as a copy editor on its Young Picador imprint.

Born in London to Indian parents who were raised in South Africa, I 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.