About me

I'm a creative writer, English teacher, editor, journalist and customer communications agent. In Denmark, I teach courses in Conversation and Writing and Academic Writing, and have taught preparation courses for the Cambridge Proficiency and Advanced Examinations. I've taught short tailored courses requested by private individuals as well as Danish companies such as DR and OptikIT.
I thrive in an environment where I can talk and connect with people, and work well in an organization which combines diversity with a mission to increase understanding between people and culture.
Overview of my competencies

- I teach English at the intermediate and advanced levels, with a focus on oral and written communication
- I write fiction and non-fiction in a variety of styles and repertoires
- I edit fiction, opinion articles, corporate information sheets, etc.
- I am a fluent and engaging oral communicator, with a wide vocabulary and a talent for drawing people out
I have an MA from Roskilde University (2012) in English and Cultural Encounters. I received the David T.K. Wong fellowship from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom in 2003. My novel Sweet Haven was published by Albin Michel in French (2011) and will be published in the original English by the New York Review of Books/Random House in 2014.
I have published a novel (Sweet Haven, Anvil 2015)) and two collections of short stories (Mens Rea and Other Stories (Anvil, 1999); the book received a Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award that same year) and Jungle Planet (University of the Philippines Press, 2006). My short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the Philippines, the United States, Britain, Finland and Denmark.