I was born in Zambia, Africa, where I spent the first ten years of her life climbing mango trees and jumping off deluged bridges. My neighbor raised a lion as a pet and the chimpanzee next door smoked a mean cigarette. I attended a British boarding school until she moved to the United States. 

Fast forward a relatively "normal" adolescent and young adult life, where I finished medical school and then saw the light which lay - not in the Sciences - but in the Humanities. I transitioned to the latter and went on to earn two graduate degrees in literature and composition before entering my PhD in Comparative Literature.

I speak four different languages and am currently learning two more.