ABOUT

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It’s 19 years since I entered the newsroom of a regional newspaper in Manchester as a trainee reporter. I had just finished my NCTJ diploma and little did I know that it was the start of a career that would involve interviewing worldly adventurers, canoeing down the Zambezi river beside hippos and delving deep into the history, cuisine and landscapes of Yorkshire, the county where I grew up.

After three years in regional news and feature writing, I worked as a freelancer, working across the features desks of various national women’s magazines in London. After a stint working as a Brand Journalist for Virgin Holidays, I returned to freelancing, specialising in travel and lifestyle articles for national newspapers, magazines and websites.

Some of my favourite features from my career came out of a three-month trip in eastern and southern Africa where I visited Tanzania’s wildlife-brimming Ngorongoro Crater, Zanzibar’s serene coastlines and South Africa’s rolling winelands. Others come from travels across the Caribbean – one of my favourite regions – home to the incredible island of Jamaica, where my children have family heritage and where my husband and I got married.

After many years living in London, I now live in Hertfordshire with my husband and two children. I now cover family and cultural travel (worldwide, but most often covering the UK), culinary journeys, hotels, adventure and more.

My recent bylines include The i, The Independent, AFAR magazine, Food & Travel, JRNY, National Geographic Traveller, The Telegraph and The Times

I also produce commercial features for The Telegraph, Wanderlust and other well-known publications and brands.

Some of my favourite editorial features to date include:

Writing about the future of the Maasai communities of Kenya and Tanzaniam (Culture Trip)

My first foray into theme park holidays at Türkiye’s Nickelodeon Land (The Telegraph)

How to have a literary-inspired stay in Yorkshire’s Brontë country (The Independent)

Plunging into Jamaica’s ‘Sunset Mecca’ (Escapism)

The extraordinary wildlife of Northumberland (TTG)