Who I am

I am a freelance journalist, covering people, communities, culture and change.

I mostly write features for the Guardian, where I worked for five years as a reporter and editor. In that time I covered the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, led commissioning on week-long series on Australian cities and urban heat, wrote a regular column on digital culture, and had my spending diary go viral.

As a freelancer I have been published by The Observer magazine, Tortoise, New Scientist, Grazia and The Face, among others. My work was selected for The Bedside Guardian 2019, The Bedside Guardian 2018, The Bedside Guardian 2017, and The Best Australian Science Writing 2017. I wrote Why Everyone Needs a Nemesis for Hodder & Stoughton’s Everything Bad is Good For You audio series.

I was born in England, grew up in New Zealand, and worked there and in Australia before returning to the UK in 2017. I am now based in London.