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Sonia Jackson
Born in Lisbon and brought up in Portugal, Spain,
Brazil, Chile and England, by Argentine/Chilean/
British parents as one of four kids, Sonia was
a global citizen from a young age. She spent
much of her youth feeding her lust for adventure,
exploration and photography with research projects in the Amazon
rainforest, climbs up Mt Kilimanjaro, and travels through Latin America and
Africa with her bows and arrows. She started her career at Unilever in London
and fed her wanderlust spending many a remote weekend off the beaten
track in Central and South America as part of the job. In 1998, she joined
National Geographic/Fox, her dream job, based in London, Madrid, Lisbon,
Sao Paulo, Tokyo and then Hong Kong.
Her half-German/half-Spanish husband grew up in Belgium, Iran, the
Philippines, Japan, Australia, the UK and Spain. So, when first a daughter,
Georgia, born in Madrid, and then an adopted son Oliver – half Mexican and
half Indonesian and born in Hong Kong – came along, followed by another
daughter, Lucia, born in Hong Kong, they fit in perfectly. After adopting Ollie,
Sonia took a sabbatical to spend more time with the kids. Meanwhile, she
launched a designer furniture business with her husband (
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com) and spends her spare time exploring Asia with the family, working with
Mother’s Choice orphanage, fulfilling her photography and writing passions,
and learning Mandarin.
Karmel Schreyer
Karmel has called Hong Kong home for 19 years
since she arrived, by way of Japan, to help
establish the editorial division of Longman Asia
ELT. Now a freelancer, she writes English-learning
materials for both primary and secondary students
here and abroad. She enjoyed merging her English-teaching training with
her love of poetry in a slim volume called
Crunchy Cockroach: Phonics
Poems for Hong Kong Kids
, which was the recipient of a Hong Kong Arts
Development Council grant, and more recently wrote interactive readers for
a CUP/Discovery Channel joint project. Educational publishing still ranks high
on her writing priority list (up there with magazine and newspaper features)
although over the last dozen years she has written the award-nominated
“Naomi Trilogy” of “third culture kid lit” (Great Plains Publications), an award-
nominated SARS memoir,
By the Banks of the Brokenhead: One life and one
summer on the Canadian Prairie
, children’s books with titles like
Peek-a-boo
Street
(MCCM Publications),
Empress Emi-poo
(Chameleon Kids), and
Empress
Blaze Moon
(Moonstar Books). Inspired by her two growing daughters, she
is currently working on
Empress Easy-peas
,
Empress Tippy-toes
and
Empress
Bossy-boots
. She welcomes opportunities for school visits and can be reached
via her website:
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CONTRIBUTORS:
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