Running in Heels Authors

Lyn G. Jegher

Unconventional photographer/writer/artist based in Milan, addicted to ageless fashion form, in every shape, loves to catch it and express it on camera. A trendsetter and party hopper who spends hours in front of the mirror just to make sure she will look unique at the next fashion show. Loves art, fashion designers in general, movies, Keanu Reeves, and her very stylish, distinguished cat Smokey

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Tamara Roper

Tamara lives in suburban paradise a little north of London. She's a big fan of The Cure, Jane Austen period dramas and hopes to one day study English literature at UCL. She particularly likes writing about anything she's interested in and in her spare time evades the credit crunch by lying about her age to the ticket machine at train stations.

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William Mathieson

William is a young freelance journalist. Based in West London, he is a keen sports fan and competitor. William also enjoys dance music and, contrastingly, the fine arts. He tries to remain abreast of what’s going on in and around the world as much as possible. For more about Will see www.williammathieson.co.uk

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Lily Niu

Lily lives in London and aspires to become a (well-liked) investigative journalist or fashion writer. As a secret nerd, a few of her favourite pastimes include creating weird and wonderful storylines for her Sims characters, watching (and re-watching) the original Star Wars trilogy, and wondering if “The Secret” really works. In particular, she enjoys writing fashion, exotic places, and of course, serious news.

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Emma Middleton

Miss Middleton lives in Paris, but is a true Londoner at heart. She is fanatical about film, both watching and creating, and has an especially overactive imagination! She also enjoys writing about just about anything, and is known for saying the first thing that pops into her head!

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Amy O'Donoghue

Amy is an East London-based visual artist, a painter and photographer. She dedicates her time to nursing her coffee-drinking habit, searching for gems in second-hand bookstores, and dreaming of parks and trees. Her work may be viewed here: www.amyodonoghue.com

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Nirit Sumeruk

Nirit is the only South African living in Paris and is a wanna-be burlesque star. An international journalist and TV presenter who loves to report on pop-culture and talk to strangers. She wants to be BFF with Karl Lagerfeld and share a beer with Oprah Winfrey one day. Read Nirit's blog on http://www.parispopcorn.com/ and for a new way of thinking, behaving and originating, look at http://www.thenewauthentic.com/

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Craig White

Craig now lives in Berlin, in cultural rehab after a spell in London and a life sentence in Manchester. His eyes are made of sponge and his memory from Teflon and he curses his luck it isn't the other way around. A musician and a shoe whore, he's not short on sole.

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Manfie Merrydew

Manfie Merrydew is a writer and singer. She enjoys exploring many creative pursuits. She currently resides in London with her boyfriend and enjoys reading an eccentric and eclectic array of literature. She studies Spanish and draws inspiration from almost every aspect of her urban surroundings

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Lauren Kimbell

Miss Kimbell has recently moved to Manchester in search of furthering her design career. After graduating with a degree in Interior Design, she has worked in the design industry for the past 2 years. She likes to read about fashion, trends and current affairs. With a passion for keeping fit, she is often seen pounding the treadmill at her local gym.

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Tarsha White

Tarsha has returned to her native New England after years of gallivanting around Europe as an International Lady of Mystery. She is an avid skier and enjoys sharing stories of her adventures with anyone and everyone, especially over a glass of wine - or several.

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Sebastian Schoebel

Sebastian just moved to Munich to a) live with his girlfriend, b) start a journalistic career, and c) observe the Bavarian culture of high-quantity beverage consumption. He enjoys traditional Japanese Karate, a good Rugby game, and books by David Foster Wallace.

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Lady P

Lady P lives in a dark backwater of London with a couple of housemates and an expensive and time consuming nail varnish obsession. A chronic tube rage sufferer, she would one day like to have a house with a garden and a sheepdog called Clive.

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Kirsty Greenwood

Kirsty Greenwood is a 26 year old writer hailing from the dubious parts of Greater Manchester. She enjoys American telly, photography and playing the guitar (albeit badly). When not receiving therapy for her out of control book addiction, she can be found in her cupboard sized flat – eating hula hoops and writing her novel. Kirsty also edits the food blog Yum Scrumptious.

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Olivia Parker

Olivia Parker is living a year abroad dream in a cardboard box sized studio in Paris. She has fully embraced the French spirit and is now a regular triple-espresso-before-breakfast, strike-when-last-week-felt-a-bit-boring, sales-splurging regular, but still trying to master the Tecktonik dance in her spare time.

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Alya Kebiri

Alya lives in Tunis and thinks people should try jumping for joy. She is into underwater conversations and would like to write a paper on the possibilities of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a Shesh Besh game (backgammon in Hebrew).

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Jimena Veloz

Jimena lives in Mexico City and is a political science student. In her spare time, she loves reading blogs, specially street style ones, and writing her own. She is deeply interested in art, design and craft.

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Dina Patel

Dina Patel is an aspiring journalist, with a keen interest in politics, who enjoys being opinionated about the world she lives in. She is currently fighting against what may become an inevitable dependency on caffeine. Dina edited the Society section this month.

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Alia Papageorgiou

Eurocentrique is really Alia Papageorgiou - a Greek Australian who found herself immersed in Belgian waffles, praline chocolates and the EU institutions she studied during her degree in European Law after moving to Brussels. Her writings encompass any connection to Australia, euroskeptics, humanitarian aid and European Affairs in general.

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Harry Stopes

Harry Stopes lives in fashionable North London and is definitely going places, such as the Faltering Fullback in Finsbury Park, the greengrocers on Green Lanes, and the Londis across the road. He goes to these places on his Brompton.

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Sarah Dean

A Francophile living in the UK who loves meeting new places and people and writing about them. Her favourite pastime is people watching over a café allongé.

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Nicolas Rudd

Freelance Journalist / Writes poetry / Translates French to English / Born in Rome / Not Italian / Lived in Brussels, Paris, Le Mans, Warsaw. Currently in Washington, D.C. / Practices T'ai Chi / Guitar / closely following the collapse of the world as we know it.

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Jessie Smith

Jessie is a native Texan living in Munich, Germany. She has a love affair with travel and food, and is always attempting to learn something new. Right now she can't get enough of knitting, hot tea, Euro Indie music, doener kebabs and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".

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Camilla Mastellari

Camilla is 26 and a foreign literature and language graduate. A freelance journalist, she lives in Italy where she works for a PR company. She loves reading, travelling and Paris.

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Daria Kyrilova

Daria is a Russian-born, Western-European-bred young lady with a striking resemblance to her cartoon namesake. Aside from university studies, she dedicates her time to cinematography, photography, plane hopping, street roaming and dreaming of a pet dog.

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Kay Weston

Kay is currently working on a degree in Journalism in Sheffield and also studies German and Dutch. She has had a great deal of experience in writing and has contributed to international, national, local and student media. Her work has been published in the UK, Germany and Russia and counts articles for The Independent, Fault Magazine, The Sheffield Star and many others to her portfolio. She spent a year working as a writer on German-language publications in Dresden and hopes to work in features when she graduates next year and says she would love to one day write for i-D or NYLON. She lists her interests as people watching out the window in Starbucks, Scrabble and anything arty. Kay describes as herself as “creative, individual, fashion-obsessed and always busy” and has wanted to be a writer her entire life “except when I was four and wanted to be a dinosaur.”

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Clare Finney

Clare currently resides in Durham where she is a final year student. When she's not writing features for Palatinate, she's rocking a fabulous fringe and generally being one of Durham's coolest fashionistas. Which is no mean feat. Clare edited this months; Mirror Mirror section.

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Antonia Dawes

Miss Dawes lives in Brixton and likes to walk around the streets of South London thinking and observing people. She loves to cook Italian and West Indian cuisine and these tastes are reflected on her bookshelf. Said bookshelf also includes a number of iconic works such as The Bible and this month's Vogue.

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Paris Correspondent

Lives in the suburbs by choice; lives on cigrarettes and baguette by choice; lives under a potential authoritarian dictatorship...

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Aimee Steen

Mathematician-turned-writer, Aimee Steen loves to put pen to paper and is currently training to be a real journalist at Cardiff Journalism School. She loves eating, making jewellery and wasting time on the internet, and she'd be lost without a good book to read. She lives in Doc Martens and insists she discovered them before they made a comeback. She takes any opportunity to visit the theatre and especially adores musicals. When she’s not writing anywhere else, she sounds off at http://aimeesteen.wordpress.com.

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Natalia Urbanska

Natalia is a restless writer born in Warsaw, currently living in Stockholm. She has a thing for street art and salutes out-of-the-box-thinking. She’s a bit addicted to soya latte, sushi and cookies. She will probably turn into a chocolate-chip-cookie any day now.

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Jen Greenwood

Jen is a student in London. She aspires to be a singer/songwriter but her obsession with looking good has lead her to doing part-time work as a beauty consultant. Can usually be found in altered states of consciousness, attempting to wow people with her music whilst appearing effortlessly stylish by somehow managing to keep on top of her makeup re-applications.

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Lucie Goulet

Lucie is a French freelance journalist in London with a keen interest in the fashion industry and the challenge of web 2.0 and 3.0 for both journalism and fashion. A recent LSE graduate, she is currently an intern at Drapers magazine, on the fashion and features desk.

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Lara Bensenia

Lara Bensenia is a freelance writer and perpetual student living in Lyon, France. Lara calls both the United States and Tunisia home and hopes to achieve EU citizenship to top it all off. In the meantime, she enjoys playing up French clichés, especially fancy chocolate, berets, and French men.

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Lucinda Belle

Lucinda is a lover of life, a freelance writer, and all round creative. She sings, plays harp and writes songs. She is due to release her first album in September 2009. She has a passion for bushcraft and survival skills, eating cheap chocolate, Brazil, twittering, and pole dancing. She currently lives in Nottinghill and can be found perusing Portobello market at irregular hours in high heels. www.lucindabelle.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/lucindabellemusic

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Melissa Rossi

A dual-national from Brazil and the USA, Melissa studied political science and works as a freelance journalist in Europe. She loves Italian literature, Brazilian food, Bohemian wine and still cannot quite grasp the idea of snow on a beach. She has lived in Rio, Boston, Cambridge, Florence and Prague?

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Stefanie Haigh

Stefanie Haigh loves fashion, travel, food and shopping and writes about them for various blogs, including her own at http://stefaniegraceblog.blogspot.com. A French and Spanish speaker, her dream is to combine fashion, travel and languages all in one fabulous career! Stefanie edited this month's Body Conscious section.

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Jennifer Lipman

Jennifer is a freelance journalist living in London and studying on the Newspaper Journalism MA at City University. She is passionate about politics, particularly American politics, and enjoys travel and the arts. She has written for several local and national British publications, including Times Online, The Sunday Express and Time Out London. For more of her writing check out: http://abhd040.portfolios.cutlines.org/ http://jenniferlipman.wordpress.com/ Follow her on twitter.com/jenlipman

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Alexia Healy

Alexia Healy grew up in London and a tiny town in France called Roquecor. She is an actress, a writer and believes very much in the power of a story.

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Martha Hayes

Martha is a London-based magazine journalist who spends her days writing about TV and her evenings trying to avoid it. She loves her vintage dress collection, collecting old Vogues, watching bands, taking photographs and drinking gin tea. She is currently blogging at www.dreamsindresses.blogspot

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Zoe Stephens

Zoe is an aspiring fashion and lifestyle journalist based in London. She has previously worked at FHM, the Times and Elle and starts at Vogue in April! Zoe loves sports, especially running (in trainers..but occasionally in her Choos/Guccis), along with other activities that most consider punishing such as bootcamp training, triathlons, spinning, and sample sales(!)

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Rebecca Martin

Becca is a British/Swedish journalist who has spent half her life trying to move back to London. She divides her time between serious news, serious fun and the serious challenge of entertaining a wilful three-year-old. With a weakness for fashion, an infatuation with culture and a serious addiction to shopping – Becca knows what’s what in Stockholm.

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Anna Parkin

A journalism student based in London, Anna supports Republic (http://www.republic.org.uk/) and considers herself a 21st-century feminist. She harbours a guilty interest in the lives of D-list celebrities and her ideal dinner party guests would be Dita Von Teese, Russell Brand and Charlie Brooker. http://anna-parkin.blogspot.com/ http://aparkin.wordpress.com/

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Camille White

An Australian lawyer currently residing in Kreuzkölln, Berlin whose main activities currently include furniture building, giving questionable English lessons to housemates, and discovering the world of Berlin minimal-tech. Part-time activities include scheming her way into a small Berlin based group specialised in regulating the revenue transparency of mining companies, and taking language courses.

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Nicola Ashwell

Nicola is a journalist living in London who specialises in fashion and lifestyle writing. When she's not researching articles she likes mixing cocktails, watching movies and throwing shapes in her hiphop class at the local YMCA.

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Katy Hughes

Katy is 23 years young next week and graduated last summer from De Montfort University, Leicester with a BA in Politics & American Studies. She's just coming to the end of a year out as an au pair in Sicily before rejoining the real world. Originally from Rye in Sussex, she's still a small town girl at heart. Katy's two obsessions are food and travelling and she plans to continue combining the two until she's too fat to fit on a plane. She loves learning languages and she likes to dabble in politics but she's far too lazy to ever really make a difference.

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Lauren Felicity Steventon

Lauren Felicity Steventon lives in London and spends her time taking tea, buying shoes and listening to Jeeves and Wooster audio books on cassette tape. Oh, and working as a journalist, which allows her to travel around, eat nice things and play with make-up in the name of research.

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Kate Hill

Kate Hill is a Nottingham based writer who has been scribbling her thoughts down online for a year now, covering subjects as diverse as men’s grooming to maternity. Kate loves cinema, laughing and eating popcorn. If she can find the perfect 50s heels to go with her perfect 50s prom dress she’ll be happy!

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Alexandra Moga

Alexandra doesn't like writing auto-biographies much. Instead, she prefers reading or hearing the words of men (not very many female writers have yet to move her equally (don't think that's a bad thing); although she will whole-heartedly accept recommendations!) who, both living and deceased, have set their thoughts, observations, experiences and various fantasies exquisitely alight. Born to Romanian parents and Francophile by fate (concluded she must have been Gallic in a former life) a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) ‘test’ reveals her to be a ENFP type. Enjoys native frolicking people and those with equally inquisitive, unconventional tendencies. Young at heart. Ancient in spirit. Cliché. Love. Sarcasm. Hug. Wink. Music.

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Laura Gutierrez

Laura Gutiérrez lives in London and takes care of all things Marketing & Communications for RioBlush. When work permits it, she likes to travel and counts finding the perfect mojito among her many passions.

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Suzi Boyle

Suzi lives in London, where she has worked for Time Out, The Independent and Vogue. She loves shoes she can't walk in and is a self-confessed tanorexic.

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Zara Morrissey

Zara, a recent graduate of English and Latin Literature, is now working as a freelance writer in London. She loves fireworks, Bank Holidays, men in thick rimmed black glasses, India, ye olde English pubs and The L Shaped Room. She can usually be found pounding the mean streets of London, planning her next trip to Europe (top of the list: Croatia) or cutting her own fringe (badly).

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Robyn Ashman

Robyn is a 25-year-old freelance Journalist living in the vibrant metropolis of Surbiton. She spent her younger years in Thailand and as a result enjoys an unhealthy obsession for seriously spicy food. She is also a fan of cats and gin. But not at the same time.

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Isabell Serafin

Isabell Serafin is a freelance journalist whose interests include writing for beauty, travel, and leisure. Isabell has lived in Poland, Italy, and South Africa, and has just completed her first novel. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and is represented by William Victor, a Madrid-based content writing agency.

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Carolyn Heinze

Carolyn Heinze (carolynheinze.blogspot.com) is the Paris contributing editor for Running in Heels. She has written about everything from horses to turkeys to drugs…and that’s just counting her celebrity coverage! Right now, she’s running around the City of Light in her second-best pair of heels, because her favourites are at the shoe repair guy’s. (Cobblestones aren’t for the faint of soles…)

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Rebecca Schoenkopf

Rebecca Schoenkopf is the LA contributing editor for Running in Heels and author of Commie Girl in the O.C. from Verso Books and a political columnist, art critic, and top editor at alternative weekly newspapers since 1991. She lives in Los Angeles.

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City Girl

The City Girl left her job as a derivatives trader in the City of London to become an author and financial journalist. Having escaped, she found that while you can take the girl out of the City, you can never take the City out of the girl. She writes a blog about economics, business, culture and, of course, the City's latest gossip. Access her musings at www.barbarastcherbatcheff.com

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Fran Tehan and Jemma Watts

Fran is a born and bred Londoner although has strong Antipodean leanings. Consequently she found herself in Melbourne in her early 20s (via a number of locations including France, Oxford, Switzerland and Crystal Palace) where she accidentally spent seven years, working in the film industry, with brief spells in hospitality & retail. She now works on a freelance basis and lives in North London with her Aussie husband and their two sons who all share a passion for food and travel. They can often be found perusing the world food section of their local supermarket on Saturdays. Jemma is a freelance photographer specialising in food, lifestyle and portraiture. Based in London, she receives commissions for editorial, design and commercial projects. Whilst on holidays travelling the world Jemma loves to capture the local environment – the people, architecture, customs and most of all the atmosphere. With her interest in food photography the Greek Easter offers a feast of colourful imagery. For more examples of Jemma’s work, visit www.jemmawatts.com

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Lucy Durnin

Lucy is a 23-year old journalism graduate living in Surrey. She loves writing, fashion, travel and films. Her ultimate ambitions include writing a best selling novel, opening her own cupcake shop and buying a beach house, not necessarily in that order!

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Charlotte Rigby

Charlotte has written for a bizarre range of titles, from Pharmacy Magazine to The Funday Times to Philosophy Now. She once lived in Thailand where she contributed to the travellers’ magazine, Welcome to Chiangmai & Chiangrai, rode side-saddle on the back of motorcycles and rescued lizards from Siamese cats. She currently resides in Stoke Newington in London where she can be spotted running about in training for a half marathon. You can follow her pain on: http://runrigbyrun.blogspot.com/ She likes cats, books, gin, chocolate and the colour green and is probably the only person in the world who waves at herself in the mirror.

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Jenny Owen

Jenny Owen is a South Londoner who will happily explain the merits of taking a bus instead of the tube. She enjoys pretty much anything cultural especially theatre, galleries and gigs (if they can be included as cultural). When not doing those things, she's probably drinking tea somewhere.

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Jennifer Needham

Jennifer Barbara Dawson Skye Needham. Writer. Daydreamer. Flower Hippie. Shower Singer. Crazy Dancer. Wagamama Scoffer. Kate Bush Lover. Piano Player. Nail Biter. Yoga Guru Wannabe. Good Timer. Aspiring Photographer. Festival Goer. Groupie. Daffodil Sniffer. Kisser. Pepsi Drinker. Jewellery Maker. Anthony Kiedis Worshipper. Learning to Surf Surfer. Eco Warrior. Birthday Girl.

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Lisa Harris

Lisa Harris is a freelance writer, specialising in food, fashion and culture. She writes for Food & Travel Magazine and keeps the rest of world up to date with her reflections at www.littleredcourgette.wordpress.com. After writing and living in northern Spain, southern India and western Canada, Lisa now calls east London her home. She lives in a sunny warehouse with a broken typewriter.

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George Robertson

George Robertson clearly spent her childhood reading too much Enid Blyton but more recently has spent several years working as a broadcast journalist, making programmes for Al Jazeera and the BBC. However, she is currently based in Paris where she is polishing up her Franglais.

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Lucy Hood

Lucy is a former Fashion Editor from Australia who moved to London to freelance and see more of the world. Her weaknesses are cheese and champagne while her favourite place on Earth is the tiny, Fijian island of Matamanoa. Her goal in life is to eat at every Michelin-starred restaurant in Europe. And after that, join a gym.

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Malena Harbers

Malena Harbers is a beauty, health, fashion and lifestyle writer who’s contributed to magazines the world around: From Harper’s Bazaar UK to Glamour UK online to Elle Canada, to Hello!. She is currently a beauty writer for The Toronto Star newspaper in the Great White North. She spent two years living in London where she learned her SPF’s from her EPA’s from the best of the beauty pack and was previously an Assistant Beauty Editor for a weekly celebrity magazine. She’s currently jet setting back and forth between Hamburg, London and Toronto, in a flower topped Alice Band and Chanel’s Le Vernis in Impérial.

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Alexia Roumanas

Alexia is a liver. She is also a travel-addict, a vegetarian and a writer. Sometimes she works as a teacher to feed her habit. Other verbs she likes to practise are dancing, dreaming, laughing and reading. She loves cats, cocktails, fireworks, the moon and thunderstorms. She is also an avid poet, an occassional short story writer and completed her first novel, Pomegranates, Popcorn and Pearls. Sporadically, she blurts out random thoughts at www.tresfou.wordpress.com.

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Jenny Williams

Jenny is a 21-year-old postgraduate student journalist at Cardiff University with an unrelenting enthusiasm for cakes, Motown music and shoes. When not writing fabulous features and perusing glossy magazines, Jenny can be found under the stage name ‘Lady Muck’ as a singer-songwriter or in the middle of a good dance floor in her favourite pair of peep-toe heels. jennyleewilliams.wordpress.com twitter.com/jennylwilliams

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Sophie Sassard

Sophie is 27 and works for a financial online publication in central London. Although she’s French, she is passionate about Italy and prefers East London to Paris. Her goal is to become a full-time freelance journalist, contributing to Italian, French and Anglo-Saxon media. In her next life, she would like to be a DJ.

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Courtney Smith

Courtney Smith is a young, Dublin-based fashion stylist and writer with experience spanning across Dublin, London and Miami. Among the celebrities she worked with are award-winning songstress Amy Winehouse, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ winner Aleisha Dixon and model Katie Price. Check out her website www.courtneystylist.com or her new style blog www.stylesergeant.blogspot.com

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Roxanne Sancto

Being blessed with the gift of the gab and not shying away from uncomfortable statements or questions, it was only natural for Roxanne to pursue a career in Journalism. After having lived in the heart of Bavaria, Germany for most of her childhood she went on to live in the flatlands of Holland, and for the last two years has been living on the Costa del Sol aka Costa del Crime, slurping alcohol-free Mojitos and writing the occasional article here and there. And now, ladies and gentlemen: All jokes aside. Roxanne was rewarded with the Honours Diploma for Freelance Music and the Arts Journalism by the London School of Journalism and have since been working as a Freelance Journalist in the area Music and the Arts.

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Bernadette Redfern

Bernadette Redfern is a freelance journalist, editor and writer and has travelled extensively in order to cover breaking news and research features. She has a particular interest in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to Middle East Economic Digest, covering a range of business sectors from banking & finance, capital markets and real estate, construction and energy. She also writes about women’s issues in the professional sector from empowerment of women in Saudi Arabia to maternity rights in the UK. Her blog: www.thebabychronicles.sampasite.com is currently being turned into a book. Bernadette has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering with Environmental Management from Manchester University and a Periodical Training Council professional certificate in journalism. She has also undertaken numerous professional training courses during her five years as an editor at media group Emap.

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Dena Collins

Dena is a fashion and trend writer based in London. She studied fashion journalism and trend forecasting at St. Martins and has a super-human thirst for style. She can tell you what you’ll be wearing in 2020, (well almost) and has a slightly unnerving penchant for Japanese design and especially loves her Kid Robot vinyl toys. The world of new and innovative designers excites her and the mundane and lazy bore her. When she’s not buried neck high in an avalanche of fashion magazines she likes to channel various style muses and lap up the obvious comments that come her way.

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Kathleen White

A New York girl, born and bred, and currently hitting the pavements in bawdy Berlin, Kate is a culture vulture. Her writing focuses on contemporary art, film and gastronomical delights. Interests include dead poets, notorious beheadings, feasts and merrymaking, and women of history who wrought destruction…fashionably of course. Kathleen edited this month's art section.

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Plum Woodard

Plum refuses to live anywhere that doesn't boast a seaside. Unable to take up residence in Barcelona just yet, she instead settled for Brighton, where she can totter over the pebbles in impractical shoes. A red lipstick sporting music journalist, she's noise centric and writes for a plethora of music publications.

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Stephanie Holding

Obsessed with writing about all things sartorial, Stephanie lives in London where she has most recently worked for Grazia, including a year and a half stint at Grazia’s sister mag in Dubai. She has finally returned to the city she loves, with a rather more glamorous wardrobe and lots and lots of heels to run around in.

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Hannah Marshall

In September 2008 Hannah quit her job as a book publicist in London, packed all her belongings into her little orange car and headed to the French Riviera in the hope of landing a wealthy oligarch. Her Russian prince has yet to arrive and to occupy herself whilst she waits she's working on her first novel. She also writes for various UK publications, including The Guardian and Telegraph, and blogs at http://yearofinfatuation.blogspot.com

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Richelle Harrison Plesse

Richelle Harrison Plesse is a freelance journalist and chanteuse who adores mini-breaks with her husband and maintaining a shoe wardrobe that would render even Imelda Marcos jealous. Australian born but Paris dwelling, this gourmande delights in eating out and would never say no to a good ol' BBQ! She enjoys competing with parisiennes in the fashion stakes, shimmying to Brazilian samba rhythms, and documenting her encounters with rude Frenchies at http://perpetuasparis.blogspot.com

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Sarah Gorman

Sarah grew up in Melbourne , where she worked as the editor of a small newspaper before moving to London last year. She has an Honours Degree in Communications from Monash University where she wrote her dissertation on women and commercial mass media. She is an advocate for women’s rights and enjoys any writing that allows her to raise awareness of gender discrimination. She has published work in sporting magazines and political websites, in addition to a piece on women and the Internet for the British academic journal Feminist Media Studies.. She eventually hopes to return home to obtain her PhD.

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Leo Bear

Leo Bear is an experienced features writer specialising in lifestyle and travel. During her twelve years in the industry she has interviewed a colourful array of characters from Hollywood Oscar-winners to African crocodile farmers. The publications she writes for include Quintessentially magazine, Metro newspaper, Harper’s Bazaar Dubai, Condé Nast Brides, Gourmet Travel and Spa Secrets. 
She lives in London with her husband and has a baby on the way. Visit her at www.leobear.co.uk

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Becky Middleton

Becky is now London-based having had enough of the sailors in Portsmouth. She has never been able to perfect the art of running in heels, so prefers walking round the house in slippers.

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Ellie Besley

Although a researcher by day, Ellie loves nothing more than being naughty at night. She writes on food, politics, society, culture and secrets(!) and can usually be found racing through Dalston on an old bike laden with bags, shoes, streamers, and sometimes her sisters! Ellie can hurdle in heels.

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Valeria Calderoni

After living in Berkeley, where she first discovered her love for journalism, and Berlin, where she enjoyed the privilege of working as editorial assistant for the Exberliner magazine, Valeria went back home in Italy and is now getting her MA in International Relations. She's into David Bowie's songs, Vincent Price's movies and Neil Gaiman's books.

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Rebecca Carey

Rebecca is a freelance writer who is also currently studying for her Masters in English Literature between FU Berlin and the University of Edinburgh. She has a penchant for driving around in her Citroen Dyan with the top down and the Stones blaring from its tiny radio. She keeps a pen, a bottle of gin and a little black dress in the glove compartment so that she is ready for all eventualities. Rebecca edited the theatre and literature sections of Running in Heels this month.

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Christine Kakaire

Christine happily considers herself a Berliner, despite her Ugandan heritage and Australian upbringing. An aspiring writer who has worked in the music industry for longer than she cares to remember, she has an ongoing love affair with Bowie, acid house, vintage frocks, and HBO shows, and remains committed to to traversing Berlin's cobblestones in heels, despite her extreme clumsiness.

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Chloe Govan

Chloe is a freelance author and journalist with a BSc in Psychology and a masters in Magazine Journalism. She specialises in satire and humour, yet her most recent assignments have contained a satisfying element of risk!

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Katrina Olivier

Katrina Olivier is a London-based aspiring fashion writer with a penchant for impractical shoes and silk blouses. Currently a business student and a mum to baby Sophie, she fills her free time with visiting bookshops and food markets, dancing with her daughter and drinking endless coffees. Katrina is known for claiming to be a natural blonde and never turning down a slice of chocolate cheescake or a blackberry martini.

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Ambarina Hasan

Ambarina has never been able to decide if she's more addicted to shoes or make-up, so she's spent her life devoted to both. Born and brought up in London of Indian heritage, she's experienced the best of what both continents have to offer and has been writing about make-up, shoes and London's social set from an Asian point of view for over ten years, but her heart belongs to her three children, her husband and her cats. After the shoes and make-up, of course.

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Monique Rubins

Monique looks foward to completing - sooner or later - her undergraduate studies in English Literature and History. Already drawing up travel plans, she's determined to explore a bit before plotting the next phase. She has long been berated for being lazy with her make-up, preferring to start the party earlier, and has only lately managed to wield the mascara wand with any skill. A proud northerner, Monique will sing the praises of her hometown, Manchester, to anyone who'll listen! Monique edited this month's Entourage section

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Tiina Heinonen

Something of an amateur photographer, a natural born worrier and an enemy of mispaced commas, Tiina comes from eastern Finland and spends her time on the many exhibitions, talks and independent films on offer in London. After two years of Excel sheets, deadlines and a litre of coffee a day, she's now doing an MA in film.

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Joanna Crawley

Joanna is a freelance writer and aspiring journalist based in leafy Hertfordshire. She couldn’t live without cheap pinot grigio, chocolate or her nail varnish collection. Loves writing as she gets to wear her pj’s to the ‘office’ and gets a ton of free stuff. She is also on a never-ending quest to find the perfect fake Chanel 2:55 (until she has saved up enough pennies for a real one).

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Leo Palmer

Leo is a student of literature and a freelance journalist. He lives in Madrid and recently returned from Mexico after living there for 8 months because of pinche swine flu, only to discover a few weeks later that it is pretty much harmless.

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Caitlin Flynn

Caitlin Flynn recently graduated in English and Film Studies. Besides fashion and writing, her favourite things are travelling and (golden retriever) puppies. Her favorite book is Alice in Wonderland, she wishes she'd been alive in the 1960s, and she reads TMZ religiously.

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Kerry Spencer

Kerry stretches herself between London, Manchester, Derbyshire and Ireland, and considers Barcelona to be among one of her future homes. With an unhealthy addiction to ice-cream, sushi and Pimms (not at the same time), she is obsessed with vintage handbags and has a sixth sense, which enables her to sniff out a vintage shop wherever she is. Kerry has been writing about all things fashion, travel and beauty for the last four years.

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Marisa Bate

Marisa is currently completing her masters in Twentieth Century Literature at Goldsmiths College whilst living in Amsterdam. She loves; Omar Little, Brighton beach and the Topshop on Victoria Street. She can’t wait for; the next McEwan novel, a week in Provence and to be able to afford to drink only champagne.

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Lucy Dearlove

Recent UCL graduate taking baby steps into the big bad bankrupt world. An aspiring writer and radio producer, she has most recently called London, Bordeaux and Berlin home and is currently deciding on the next city. She was definitely born in the wrong era and compensates madly with old books and old clothes, though has quite a large space in her heart for new music.

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Soraya Kishtwari

Soraya was raised in Spanish, educated in English and whisked off her feet in French! A nomad at heart, Soraya has lived and worked in Palma, London, Bologna, Johannesburg, Taipei, Edinburgh and Paris. She is passionate about news and current affairs and looks forward to consolidating her journalistic skills with an MA in journalism from City University, London. You can follow Soraya on Twitter: @SorayaKishtwari

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Michelle Carson

Michelle is 31 and lives in Belfast. She works as a PA which involves running round all day in heels trying to be Wonder Woman. Would love to livein New York. Loves retail therapy, enjoys a good book and secretly want to have Jason (Take That) Orange's Babies (don't tell her boyfriend!)

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Jourdana Abrahams

Jourdana is a London-based fashion, beauty and style writer. Mesmerised by fashion photography, endlessly seeking the perfect pink lipstick, currently flirting with Buenos Aires whilst in the throes of a love affair with New York and super fickle with her girl-crushes, Jourdana believes all a girl needs is love, a pair of f***-me heels and a great gig.

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Nicky Branagh

Nicky Branagh is a freelancer currently residing in the UK. She loves nothing more than to travel the world and tends to do so in her very best heels, Crackberry in hand. Follow her on Twitter @Minibran.

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Rose Griffin

Born in England, Rose has spent the last 5 years in Eastern Europe, initially falling in love with Russia, then trying her luck in Warsaw. Working as a journalist in the latter for the last three years, she has covered a range of topics including travel, culture and politics, getting to grips with Polish culture and meeting some great personalities along the way. Currently preparing for her next adventure in Belarus, she also enjoys running and literature.

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Emma Daly

Emma Daly is a 2009 graduate from The University of Reading. She studied English and American Literature and graduated with a First with Hons. Emma has been published in The University of Reading’s newspaper Spark* and she will continue to write for the travel section throughout her upcoming gap year. She has completed placements with The Times and The Telegraph on their fashion desks and she will be joining the fashion team at The Daily Mail in August before travelling in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and LA as a freelance journalist.

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Michelle Taffe

Michelle is a writer, musician and all round artist living in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Everyone in Spain assumes she is French given her name but actually is from Melbourne, Australia. Her interests are wide ranging but predominant is travel and getting to know foreign peoples and cultures...Michelle edited this month's literature section.

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Emily Kafka

Emily Kafka was born in the US but is constantly gallivanting around Europe searching for a way to stay. She lived for a while in France and briefly in England and worked in fashion journalism and PR in Paris. She's currently attempting to learn Italian in Rome while writing about all the interesting city happenings.

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Ruthie Collins

Based in Cambridge and London, Ruthie is a visual writer working across mediums and creative communications to explore different narrative languages. Her work is inspired by interdisciplinary legends Luca Orta, Yoko Ono, and Laurence Weiner and often has a social or text-based message. Passionate about an inclusive artworld, in 2008 she helped friend and artist Freya Zinovieff co-found Cambridge Open Art Space and is currently studying with the London School for Social Entrepreneurs to grow a network and platform for creatives from all backgrounds. Ruthie is also a Women's Enterprise Ambassador and is working on a book called The Hip Girl's Guide to Being an Entrepreneur for creative, entrepreneurial women. She teaches English language and coaches a limited number of clients on creative projects. www.ruthiecollins.blogspot.com / www.creativeresistance.blogspot.com

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Claire Bonham

Claire lives in London but would like to emigrate to Paris. Her favourite things are champagne, Leonard Cohen and laughing.

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Ruth O Reilly

Irish born Ruth is a classical musician and writer living in London. A lover of travel, good wine and fine theatre she feels right at home in practically any European city. Educated at the Guildhall and London School of Journalism, Ruth hopes to combine her knowledge and write useful, informative articles about the things she loves.

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Jenny Armstrong

Jenny lives in Madrid and works in marketing. She's from Ireland but wishes she was Spanish (or at least a bit more tanned). She loves festivals, music, comedy, snowboarding and languages and one day wants to find the perfect job which combines all five. She can usually be found in the midst of some festival or other or lolling about in the Retiro park in Madrid drinking coke and wine together (a Spanish speciality apparently!) Follow her on twitter @jenzer_irlanda

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Jo Oliver

Jo is a fashion, beauty and features writer who has recently swapped London life for the Hertfordshire countryside. She has a penchant for cupcakes, Cobalt blue, natural beauty and cashmere and an irrational fear of space. Her childhood ambition was to be Lois Lane but she’s perfectly happy as a journalist with a man who does not wear his pants on top of his trousers.

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Eleni Papaioannou

Eleni is a freelance writer living in Athens, Greece. In another lifetime, she lived in Brighton England where she was a perpetual student. Undergraduate Degree in Social Psychology? Check. Postgraduate Degree? Check. TEFL Teaching Diploma? Check. Eleni now spends her days using none of that knowledge. Eleni likes irony, eavesdropping on strangers’ conversations, watching people fall over, going to therapy and listening to other people’s stories. One of her favourite words in the English language is ‘smitten’. Eleni can't live without: the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The New York Times crossword puzzle, Korres Natural Beauty Products, American Television Shows, Google reader, her Blackberry and GHD hair straighteners. She enjoys drinking Soy Chai Lattes everyday of the week and twice on Sundays.

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Nina Smith

Nina resides in London where she can be found imbibing a varied selection of beverages in Dalston nitespots and attending cultural events galore. In a past life she was Liz Taylor and should have guest-starred on Dynasty although unfortunately she was in nappies at the time. Nina's lipstick exploits have inspired a plethora of Nobel prize-winning scientists and she is currently trying to crack the code of calorie-free rosé, without any luck as yet.

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Sarah-Hayley Owen

Sarah-Hayley Owen is a Journalist and Stylist. Having graduated in Fashion Womenswear from London College of Fashion, Sarah-Hayley freelances for various popular magazine titles. Besides fashion, Sarah-Hayley is a classically trained Soprano, has a passion for performing arts and adores museums and galleries.

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Sacha Markin

Sacha Markin is a thirty-something writer and trained journalist, based just outside of London. She has written for newspapers, magazines, books and the web and, alongside her writing, she has also worked in various areas of the media, TV and events industry. Sacha’s hobbies include compulsive book buying (but never getting around to reading them), marveling at the many interesting blogs online (but never getting around to starting one herself) and, of course, running in heels (but never after Sauvignon Blanc!)

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Natalia Popova

Natalia is currently taking an MA in International Journalism at Cardiff University. Born in Russia, she grew up in Belgium and technically lives in Luxembourg. She loves travelling and learning about local foods and likes taking photographs.

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Amy Ma

Amy Ma is an Australian who, after unwittingly finding herself amidst a wonderful real life love story, has ended up in Stockholm, Sweden. With a degree in communication and a little bit of law from her native Newcastle, Australia, she still hasn't used it in exactly the way you're meant to. Amy’s stories aim to be universal in theme, but elements from her personal world usually shine through in the end. She enjoys hanging with friends and family, whether it’s a group screening of a favorite film or hitting the dance floor. Most of all though, a good conversation and being in the ocean.

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Naomi Kerbel

Naomi Kerbel was a comedy actress then a banker and is now a TV journalist. She loves a good blow dry, is a sucker for pink champagne and is a terrier on the netball court. Claim to fame - kissed Basil Brush and met the Queen. Not on the same day. A girl can only take so much excitement.

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Jo McGuigan

Jo is an aspiring feature writer, currently studying for an MA in Journalism in London. She loves renovating wrecked houses, eating the darkest of dark chocolate and wielding a bat on the tennis court (though not all at once.) Her dream is to move to Annecy and live happily ever after on the edge of the world’s most beautiful lake. With a French dog called Bernard.

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Alexis Forsyth

Alexis trained as a magazine journalist at Cardiff University in 2007 and now resides up north with the Geordies in the city of Newcastle. By day, she works in marketing, trying to master numerous design packages, while by night, she turns her hand to writing as a freelance features writer. She loves classy cocktails and would never say no to a cupcake. If Alexis won the lottery, she’d escape to Paris and enjoy a life of chocolate-filled crepes and daily walks along the River Seine.

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John Elmes

John is an English Literature graduate from Durham University and currently doing an MA in Journalism at Goldsmiths' College in London. he can't get enough of the arts, especially the old music - from Hip-Hop to Patagonian pan-pipe music, if it's got a good tune, he'll enjoy it. Also a big fan of books, films, theatre, sport, socialising, skittles, nesquik cereal, pop tarts and Sailor Jerry's rum. Check out his blog at http://elmsie.wordpress.com/

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Josephine Power

Josephine is a writer that relishes the freedom of freelancing. She loves to travel and experience new things. Irish by birth, Josephine has just recently moved from Montreal to Edinburgh and is presently busy falling in love with the city. With a BA in English with Psychology, an MA in Film Studies, and a diverse range of interests she is well equipped to write on many subjects including the arts, society, lifestyle, travel and food. For more on Josephine see www.josephinepower.com

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Nicola Lombardi

Nicola is a freelance writer currently living in Cambridge. She writes for fashion websites and style & lifestyle magazines regularly. Nicola lived in Norway for four years so she loves the cold and snow! She also loves everything retro and vintage and has a mild obsession with old LPs. When she's not writing she likes to read a classic book with a glass of wine.

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Dominie Heald

Dominie Heald is a penniless waif living a gypsy-like existence, and finds herself in that strange limbo between realities that is familiar to all recent graduates these days. A Brit through and through, Dominie is currently exploring expat life in Arabia; and has an inexplicable (and irritating) tendency of losing her shoes everywhere she goes.

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Loretta Ramkissoon

Loretta is a 21-year old language student, currently on adventures abroad. Some of her loves are jazz, brogues, amber, black and white foreign films and Siberian huskies. She aspires to be a screen translator when she graduates and hopefully one day a scriptwriter/novelist. She has lived in London her whole life but dreams of moving to Florence and owning a Fiat 500.

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Domonique Wilson

Domonique Wilson is a twenty-something born and bred Glasgow girl qualified in make-up artistry. She likes to get creatively sidetracked scouring for vintage finds and following her amateur fashion design/journalist dream. When not preoccupied thinking about fashion she uses her blog (www.lilylovelock.blogspot.com) to share her thoughts and opinions with like-minded people internationally. She likes to think of it as her own little creative outlet. If it were a perfect world she would wear sparkly dresses and spend every day eating cupcakes, reading Marilyn Monroe biographies and decorating her bedroom with David La Chapelle photography. She lives for her dog Lily and the possibilities of one day having a successful fashion career and living in New York.

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Charlotte Briere-Edney

A London girl through and through, Charlotte grew up in Camden, though she has currently ditched the big smoke for a run-down attic in Madrid. A self-confessed geek, she has a passion for fashion, a heart for art and an ear for gossip, and enjoys ice-skating and Marmite. When not pretending to be studying for her Cambridge modern languages degree, Charlotte can usually be found bargain-hunting, planning her next outfit or wreaking havoc at the local watering holes.

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Caitlin Ritchie

Originally from Connecticut, Caitlin has relocated to Europe to pursue her interest in all things journalism. After a year in Spain spent developing a respect for red wines, she’s moved on to Wales to earn her MA in journalism. When she’s not running around Cardiff, she’s mastering the squash courts, the arts scene, and racking up frequent flyer miles. She’s also been known to refer to herself in the third person.

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Sarah Beech

Sarah is a 26-year-old editorial assistant who normally works in the background and watches while the journalists she assists take the limelight. She has worked for a diverse range of magazines and newspapers in Glasgow, writing features and news. She spends her free time writing, reading and running. Her ambition is to set up her own magazine.

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Alex English

Alex is a London-based freelance writer who loves baking, polka dots, flamingos and maths. She writes on food, travel and fashion and can often be found feasting on marshmallows in a vintage frock. Alex hotfoots it in heels on a regular basis.

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Tom Bowen

Tom Bowen gets far too caught up in old fashioned novels and modern day indie pop. Whether it's selling his possessions to move to Paris or jetting off to China, he is far more a fan of romantic imagery than reality. After a prolonged spell in Beijing he is set to return to Paris next year where he hopes to continue writing for a number of publications, build up his fantastic trilby collection and pursue his dream of becoming Humphrey Bogart.

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Jessica Oliver

London-born Jessica Oliver grew up mostly in Cape Town beneath the sun and Table Mountain, where she focused the majority of her energy on studying words and language, as well as dancing and performing. (The rest was saved for sundowners and beach parties, of course.) In London she worked on numerous renowned Conde Nast and NatMag titles, including Men's Health, Company, GQ, Brides and World of Interiors, checking facts and subbing the crap out of articles. She continues to do so back in Cape Town, but hangs on tight to her ties back in the UK.

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Janie Davies

Janie is a freelance journalist from London. She completed her training in technology reporting, and is now branching out in general business and consumer journalism. Janie specialises in social care and social politics, as well as education. In her spare time she enjoys fashion studies and travelling - particularly around Asia - and hopes to report back to Running in Heels from lots of exciting places.

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Emma Sheppard

Emma Sheppard has trouble staying in one place. She's been away from the UK for four years - living in Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Now she's back studying for her MA in Journalism, she's determined to rediscover London and all its worldly charms.

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Lauren McConnell

Lauren is a freelance writer living in Edinburgh. Currently creating content for a new online dating venture, she’s written everything from gig reviews to weight loss guides. Lauren loves butterflies, salami sandwiches and her two pet Fancy Rats, Woody and Marmaduke Duke.

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Rebecca Holman

Londoner Rebecca has been working as an editor and journalist for the last five years, but has abandoned doing any real work in favour of daytime TV, obsessive Twittering and the occasional spot of celeb and fashion writing. However, if she's trying to make herself sound cool she's happy to still cash in on the story of how she once interviewed Uri Gellar for a bingo magazine four years ago.

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Zoe Leno

Zoë enjoys living her life in a haze of English, Spanish and French, daydreaming herself away to countries near and far. She appreciates interesting company, all things retro and enjoys words, believing once written down they become truth. Documenting her days through photography, she could waste hours in a café people-watching and putting the world to rights, preferably with a cappuccino in hand.

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Francesca Fabi

Francesca is a certified wine sommelier who loves to kick start the day to the sound of AC/DC and the smell of black coffee. A rock journalist for several years, she now dedicates her times to writing about life's finest pleasures: wine and food. When she is not busy in the vineyards, you can find her on the slopes, attempting to improve her snowboarding skills.

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Eeva Kaun

Originally from Estonia, Eeva has spent the last ten years travelling around the world. Now working as a freelance photographer and journalist, she graduated from Northumbria University specialising in scriptwriting. Eeva has worked for various travelling web sites and magazines. She is currently writing for Wide World Magazine and working on independent film sets as stills photographer. Eeva is interested in a range of topics from travel and lifestyle to culture and film.

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Philippa Barr

Philippa is from Alice Springs in the centre of Australia - it's a long way from any other town but seems closer to the stars since you can always see so many of them. She has lived and worked in several cities; Sydney of course, Prague, Venice and now lives in Berlin. Philippe has had many different jobs - measuring rubbish dumps in small towns near Alice Springs; building a tower out of pornographic video tapes in Venice; and serving biscuits to Nicole Kidman on a handmade cardboard tray. A psychic once predicted that she would work in teams and produce images, another pyschic said that she would dance, write and make photographs. Now Philippa doesn't know which one to believe. She likes to cook, speak in different languages and shamble to music on new dancefloors, although she can be shy so a glass of wine helps!

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Kate Maclennan

Kate lives in the wet city of Glasgow where she is currently studying for an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University. She have previously been nominated for Herald Student Journalist of the Year. Her dream fashion item would be a Chanel 2.55.

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Hannah Nathanson

Hannah lives in the not-so-leafy part of leafy Surrey but soon hopes to fill her lungs with city soot and move to London town. Having spent many years studying Spanish and Italian she lays claim to a vein of latino blood running through her body. As a keen traveller she relishes writing about the worldwide destinations she visits. Closer to home, Hannah enjoys reviewing plays and films and hovering like any other culture vulture.

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Jonny Gardner

Jonnny currently resides in a glamourous hive of activity called Ealing, where he struggles to find a good fry-up but can easily get a hearty Polish meal. A creative sponge, Jonnny is constantly soaking up new and interesting ideas, and has a keen eye for design, literature, theatre, film and art. A rebellious and moody type, he is a dreamer and loves observing people and their surroundings. Always on the move, he is excited by foreign environments, beautiful things and the breadth of the human mind.

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Bobbie Mellor

Student of French and Dutch at UCL, Bobbie is presently living in Provence for a year. Relinquishing all responsibility each summer, she absconds to faraway corners of the earth, and hopefully one day the moon, then reports back to whoever is listening. More responsible activities and interests include translating EU documentation, fighting for Minority Languages, Balzac, boating and Jefferson Airplane.

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Naomi Leach

Naomi Leach is a London based magazine journalist. She mostly writes about film and travel and has worked on current affairs documentaries too. When she’s not pretending she can surf in foreign seas, she can be found skipping in her heels through the streets of central London.

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