ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in London, spending many school holidays with family in East Africa. After leaving university, I built a career in marketing, specialising in TV, digital and brand strategy for companies including the BBC. I’d always been an avid reader, but I only rekindled my early love of writing in 2015 while doing a short course.

My grandparents left India for East Africa in the 1940s. Kololo Hill is inspired by their lives, as well as those who were expelled from Uganda by brutal ruler Idi Amin. Through my writing, I want to shed light on the the British Asian stories that have been lost in history.

Alongside writing I also now help writers with their own writing and marketing and am particularly proud to help those from underrepresented backgrounds.

I also once ran away to join a circus in New York, but that’s a story for another time…