About Me

I’m sure I filled in the “about me” section somewhere on this blog, but as I can’t find it, perhaps you can’t either.  So here is some potentially duplicated info about me…

I’m a dual Australian/British citizen and I grew up in the small suburb of Park Orchards in Victoria, Australia.  I played basketball and hockey and loved my horse (and books about horses).

In 2005 I graduated from Monash University in Melbourne and afterwards I spent a year travelling through Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Nepal, India and Pakistan.  Many of the stories on my blog are based on the experiences I had during this time.

I moved to London 365 days after leaving Melbourne for Asia.  I worked at a government agency for a year, while studying journalism at night school.  I quit my job altogether to obtain accreditation from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (UK).

However finding (paid) work as a journalist in London was really tough, so I went to Bangladesh to do a six month internship at The Daily Star. Fantastic place.

That was in November 2009 – and I’m still here in Dhaka.  Last month I married my translator, a Bangladeshi journalist called Sherpa Hossainy.  Things are great.

I write features for a national newspaper in Bangladesh called The Independent, as well as for IRIN, the UN’s news service.

Other stories and photographs have been published in Himal, the Guardian, The Scotland Herald.  I’m available for commissions and I sell world photography here: https://jessica-mudditt-photography.myshopify.com/

My long-term goal is to write a non-fiction book about life as a correspondent in Bangladesh – I’m just not sure yet how it ends…