I have worked in a hospital in Guatemala City just after the ceasefire in 1996, lived in a hut on the African savannah, lived in England during the Mad Cow Disease scare (can't donate blood because of this), slept under the stars in the Australian Outback, and gotten my rental car stuck in the capillaries of a Sicilian mountain village. I do medical/science writing as a day job, and freelance ficiton and travel writing at night. I have published on Transitions abroad, won a nationwide short story competition, and was runner up in Transitions Abroad 2008 narrative travel writing competition.