Valerie Khoo

Valerie Khoo is the National Director of the Australian Writers' Centre which she established in 2005. The centre offers writing courses to the public in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. She is also a writer, podcaster, visual artist and former journalist.

In 2018, Khoo was appointed the City of Sydney's Curator of the Sydney Lunar Festival. Khoo is the co-host of the long-running podcasts ''So You Want to be a Writer'' (with children's author Allison Tait) and ''So You Want to be a Photographer'' (with photographer Gina Milicia). She also hosts the podcast series ''New stories, Bold Legends: Stories from Sydney Lunar Festival''.

Graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics in 1991, Khoo has since worked as an accountant, in public relations, as a features writer for magazines, and as a freelance journalist. She is the author of six books. In 2000, she was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Communication from the University of Technology Sydney.

Khoo was born in Singapore and migrated to Sydney with her parents when she was four years old. Provided by Wikipedia