I’ve had a varied life from the very start. My parents are from the Philippines but I was born in Rome and because my father was a journalist (that’s probably where my love of writing came from) I grew up in Hong Kong, Mexico City, Madrid and London. After finishing University, I worked as an English as a Foreign Language teacher and later marketed training courses in London. I then spent over sixteen years in the not-for-profit sector as a fundraiser and fundraising consultant before switching careers. I’m a trained counsellor (Transpersonal perspectives), an NLP Master Practitioner and a Certified Practitioner of Applied Neuroscience, so I weave these elements together with Shamanic practices and my own writing experience into the workshops I facilitate. 

When I retired, I finally wrote the novel – a YA Fantasy – I’d been wanting to write for years and it was shortlisted for Peters Fraser & Dunlop’s Queer Fiction Prize in 2023. In the same year, I won the first Underrepresented Writer’s Bursary for Goldsboro Writing Academy’s Advanced Writing Programme.