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:: bio I was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, and educated by my scientist parents, the French College in Sofia, and two New Zealand universities. In 1990, our family moved to England, and later to New Zealand. During my twelve years in Aotearoa, I had year-long stints in France and Germany, and 5 years ago I moved back to Britain. I live in sunny Edinburgh as a happy cultural mongrel and I'm working on a simplified version of my East European-Kiwi-Scots accent. I started out as a poet, and continued as a novelist and travel writer. At the moment, I seem to do all of the above, as it seems selfish to choose just one. My latest poetry collections are Someone else's life and Geography for the Lost, titles which hint at my preoccupations as a writer, traveller, and cultural mongrel. My travel essays were twice recipients of the NZ Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award, and I write the occasional travel guide to keep my head above water and my feet on the road. My new memoir, Street Without a Name: childhood and other misadventures in Bulgaria, is a coming of age story at the end of Cold War, and a journey along the edges of post-Cold War Europe. So far it has appeared in three countries, and will be out in the USA in mid-2009. After a break of a few years, I am returning to fiction and hoping that it's mutual. I write intermittently for the Guardian, Vogue, the TLS, The NZ Listener, and BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. 
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