A journalist of 15+ years, Theresa has published in the UK, US, Canada, and Hong Kong including The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Lonely Planet, Business Insider, South China Morning Post, Stylist, Metro, Hong Kong Tatler, The Week, Prestige Hong Kong, #legend, Luxury Briefing, and Narcity.
She is working on her first novel, which she began on a course with Curtis Brown Creative. That work-in-progress was selected for the initial longlist at the 2026 Farnham’s First Five Pages competition.
Her creative non-fiction was published in the literary journal Untitled: Voices; her poetry in The Boonies, Isele, Overachiever and Mixed; and she performed her poem ‘Compatible’ on BBC radio. She was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize in 2024.
In 2023, Theresa guest lectured on ‘Writing Climate Change’ at the University of British Columbia. She’s an alumna of Vashon Artist Residency, and was selected as a mentee for BIPOC Writers Connect 2025: Facilitating Mentorship, Creating Community presented by The Writers’ Union of Canada and the League of Canadian Poets.
Theresa lives in Vancouver, on the stolen land of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.
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