I’m a feature writer and communications consultant based in Adelaide, Australia. This site offers a limited portfolio of my writing. (If you’re curious about my consultancy work, it’s all on LinkedIn.) 

To help you get started with my journalism, here are some pieces I wrote as a Digital Producer with the ABC: Would you hang out with your dead relatives? Can racist postcards be “returned to sender” – 100 years later? Is it time to “rid our galleries of sex pests and paedophiles“? Don’t leave without meeting the first female riverkeeper of the Birrarung or unlocking the delights of slimy, slithery, and rubbery food.

Follow the link to find my reporting for Al Jazeera, including this story about members of the Stolen Generation trying to reclaim the language of their people and this one about why people are soiling their undies for science.

I loved visiting the sets of a hotly anticipated Australian series for The Guardian – come visit Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher’s kitted-out Mack truck with me.

Going further back, you’ll find stories I wrote as a Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Journalism Fellow and a Falling Walls Science Journalism Fellow. There’s also a selection for Commonwealth Writers, written during my stint as their Regional Correspondent for South Asia. Here and here are two of my favourites from the series.

Many of the pieces re-published here first ran in The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka.

Under the list of categories, you’ll find my section on Writers: Vikram Seth makes me wait five years for our interview; Richard Dawkins is in pursuit of truth; Sarah Waters wonders ‘what if the lovers were female?’; Louis De Bernierre doesn’t care for lazy readers and Jeet Thayil might never publish another collection of poetry; Booker and Commonwealth Prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka’s  tells me what to expect from this new novel (hint: think ghosts); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her extraordinary novel Half of a Yellow Sun; Sonali Deraniyagala‘s heart-wrenching memoir is the best possible memorial, and in an old favourite, Kiran Desai sits down to talk to me fresh from winning the Booker Prize.

Under science and technology, meet a Colombian conservationist locked in a battle with exotic frog smugglers, discover how Sri Lankan and Australian researchers are creating a new anti-venom, go into the field with pioneering leopard researchers, and watch as robots lend a helping hand on Australian farms.

If you’re interested in commissioned books – Publications will give you a taste. I currently work as a Digital Manager at CSIRO. Here are some profiles I produced for our site, and examples of my latest passion – designing and producing these incredible, multimedia-rich accessible feature articles that celebrate CSIRO’s world-class research.