Journaling since age eleven, I have wanted to be a writer since discovering Anais Nin by chance in the film Henry and June on daytime TV while at uni, aged 20. I graduated from The University of West Australia, majoring in English literature and psychology, with a history minor (The Vikings and Ancient Greeks), but it was during a stay in Mumbai in 2003, while recording Hindi vinyl in a sound studio, that a book just started coming out of me!
The following year, aged 25, I lived in New York to go to hip-hop dance school and was a waitress at Le Petit Café, Soho, while doing Bollywood dancing for Rujuta Vaida. In 2005, I lived in Montpellier, France to perfect my French and then in 2007, aged 28, I finally took some units in creative writing at Murdoch University.