Published Work
ONGOING: ‘Reading German Literature in Translation’: a column for Currents, the quarterly magazine of the American Women’s Club of Hamburg, reviewing books from the Deutsch Welle list of 100 ‘must-read’ German books translated into English.
‘4pm at Sankt Peter Ording’: a short essay featured in the Witching Hour column of Off Assignment, a literary magazine specialising in creative non-fiction. You can read it here. August 2023.
‘Zoom On, Mute Off: Pandemic Mothers Around the Globe’: I collected and edited a number of global pieces for the Hamilton Arts and Letters Journal, released inJune 2023. A piece of mine, entitled PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN MOTHERHOOD PINBALL is included in the collection.
‘Exhibitionist: The Life of Julie Cotton’ : A hybrid piece, published in the Fissured Tongue series, by Inverted Syntax, December 2022.
‘Home: an essay by a New Zealander in Germany’: A personal essay about parenting, lockdown and writing a NZ novel from afar. Included in issue #101 of Takahē magazine, April 2021.
Book Review: Loss Adjustment, by Linda Collins: I reviewed Linda’s heartbreaking book about her daughters suicide, for the Sassy Mama website in September 2020. You can read it here.
‘A Residency in Banff’ : A personal essay about my MFA Residency in Banff, Canada in September 2019, was published on the World Literature Today website. Read the article here.
'Quantum Leap' : A short story included in the 2017 issue of Kapohau / Turbine - an annual online journal published by Victoria University’s prestigious International Institute of Modern Letters. Read the story here.
'The Kiwi-Mumbaikers': A personal essay about our mixed race family, collected in We R Family, edited by Grace Chia and published by Math Paper Press, Singapore.
An anthology of eight unforgettable tales, We R Family celebrates the family in its colourful diversity from the whispers of homes in nameless cities to the metropolises of SIngapore, New York, Mumbai and Addis Ababa to the suburbs of Indiana and Connecticut. Visit the Math Paper Press website here.
'That Girl' : A short story published by Quarterly Literary Review, Singapore, Vol. 16 No. 2 Apr 2017. Read the story here.
'School Kids' : A poem and photograph published by Singapore literary journal We Are A Website, Issue 6, 2017.
'Ice Mountain': A personal essay about a three day trek on horse back through the mountains north of Chengdu, China. Published by Kyoto Journal, Issue 77, October 2013. Available here.
'The Predators': A short story published by literary ejournal Muse India, Issue 39, October 2011. Read here.
Articles on Women, Coworking and Business
Travel Play Live Magazine, Issue 9, Spring 2017: The Role of Role Models
The Ladies Room, by PS Love, September 2016: Top Five Business Lessons for New Entrepreneurs
SwagLit, April 2016: A Room of One's Own
Sassy Mama in Business, February 2016: How to Nurture Your Own Creativity
Sassy Mama in Business, September 2015: Guide to Freelancing Like a Champ
Sassy Mama in Business, August 2015: How to Raise Ambitious Daughters (and Sons)!