Hi, I’m Natasha!

I’m a freelance journalist, author, and entrepreneur.

I’ve lived and worked from four continents and many countries. I currently divide my time between Cambridge, UK, and New Delhi, India.

I hate moral policing, love nerdy conversations, and have frequently been responsible for friends and family locking themselves inside their homes after reading what’s been written about them in national magazines.

Before reaching career nirvana as a freelance journo, I spent a year as a corporate slave working nine-to-nine in a four-by-four excuse for a cubicle. Luckily, I came to my senses and gave up my formal attire and make-up for sweatpants and dark circles.

Since then, I’ve managed to convince editors at The New York Times, TIME, CNN, BBC, ABC News, The Independent, The CS Monitor, Ms., and several other publications to publish my stories.

As a magazine features writer, I have contributed to several women’s and general-interest publications, including various international editions of Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.

My assignments have required me to trek up and down the tsunami-ravaged coast of India, live with Tibetan nuns, interview coffin makers, learn how cellphones are designed, and so much more.

I was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Journalism; the recipient of the Development Journalist of the Year award at the Developing Asia Journalism Awards Forum in Tokyo, and the winner of the Silver Excel, a trade magazine award, from the Society of National Association Publications (USA) for my work on female wastepickers in India.

I’m the author of Shut Up and Write: The No-Nonsense, No B.S. Guide to Getting Words on the Page and seven other bestselling books for writers. My work has also been included in the books The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories from the World’s Best Writers (Lonely Planet, 2016), Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas (Harvard Business Review Press, May 2013), Voices of Alcoholism (LaChance Publishing, April 2008), and Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul 2 (HCI, June 2004).