Deepa Paul

 

Born to Filipino and Indian parents in Manila, Deepa Paul grew up in the Philippines and currently resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

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Her journalistic writing has appeared in Seventeen Magazine Philippines, The Philippine Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Singapore Women’s Weekly, while her personal essays have been published in Cheex, Gal-Dem, the Sky Island Journal, Expanded Field and Rappler. She is among the inaugural cohort of Craft Year, a writing mentorship program run by Meg Pillow, editor of Roxane Gay’s The Audacity. 

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In addition, she has worked as a copywriter for GMA-7, the Philippines’ largest TV network, and global brands such as NBC Universal, The Disney Channel, HBO and Netflix.

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She has read her work at Schmutz Cinema and Body Electric Presents, venues for arthouse erotic films and live performances in Amsterdam. She has been a sex and intimacy panelist at Come Alive, a large-scale exhibition on the power of pleasure; speaker at the 10th anniversary of De Meerminners, the Netherlands’ longest-running polyamory community; and speaker at the Amsterdam edition of Creative Mornings, a series of breakfast talks for the creatives held in 215 cities around the world. 

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Find her on Instagram as @storiesbydeepa, or via her bi-weekly Substack newsletter, Letters by Deepa.

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Agent: Jo Unwin