Paul Crask

I'm an English writer who lives in Dominica. I was born in the north of England and went to study at Leeds University where I also worked as a journalist for the award-winning Leeds Student newspaper. In 1986, I studied for three months at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig in former East Germany and, in 1987 I spent a year working as an English language assistant in a grammar school in Rheinland Pfalz, West Germany. After graduating in 1988, I worked for two years as an English teacher in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. After travelling around Asia and North America, I returned to England where I began a project management career in London and met Celia, a native of the Caribbean island of Dominica. In 2005, we dropped out, downshifted, and moved to the island where we built a home near the mountain village of Giraudel. I've authored two travel books (the Bradt Travel Guide to Dominica and the Bradt Travel Guide to Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique), I've written numerous freelance travel articles for regional and international publications, and I've designed and published a series of independent magazines.