Jessica was born and raised in England, but fell in love with Africa after accompanying her family on a three-week safari to Botswana and Zimbabwe in 2001. Her adult affair with the continent began in 2010 when she traveled to Mozambique to work as a volunteer on a whale shark research project.
A keen scuba diver and conservationist, Jessica subsequently moved to South Africa to pursue a career as a dive instructor. Fate intervened in the form of an opportunity to write about her experiences for U.S. dive magazine Scuba Diver Life, and so writing gradually took over from diving as Jessica's first passion.
Jessica's African adventures include sleeping under the stars while tracking wild dogs in Zimbabwe, making friends with a tiger shark named Penelope in South Africa, and surviving a car-jacking in Tanzania. She relocated to South Africa in 2013, married a South African in 2015, and now spends her weekends introducing her baby daughter to the game reserves that captured her heart when she was a child.
Highlights
Jessica has honed her skills as a freelance writer specializing in travel, scuba diving, and wildlife conservation. She is a two-time winner of The Telegraph's Just Back travel writing competition and has written extensively for a variety of magazines, travel agencies, websites, and PR companies.
Jessica completed an undergraduate course in Classical Studies at King's College London, graduating with a first class degree in 2012. She spent a year studying abroad at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 2013, she qualified as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
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