Daniel Hersh

I’m a writer, born in London, currently living in New Jersey, studying in the Rutgers-Camden MFA programme, been travelling around the world for the last five or so years. I began writing when I quit my job and left England: you can see the story of the first year of my travels here, and its continuation here. I went from New York to Vancouver, then overland to Costa Rica, then into Hong Kong and China, South East Asia and India. It was experience I’d recommend to anyone. When the backpacking finished, so did my travel blogging, and I began another blog, called Suitcasing. Much of suitcasing is now offline, partly because, as my fiction writing became more all consuming, I decided to take a long break from blogging, and when I came back online, I wasn’t sure how to get the old movable type posts onto wordpress; partly because 2005 was a pretty tough year for me, involving all kinds of romantic, financial, relocation and meaning-of-life questions, and it’s good that the musings I posted on those issues are now off the internet. The later years of Suitcasing are here.

This new blog is an experiment: I now realise that travel and the feelings it produced created a lot of my urge to blog: once I arrived in New Jersey, with the expectation of being here for at least two years, I found it hard to keep writing on Suitcasing. This is going to be a part professional, part personal site — lets see how it goes.

Old readers, lovely to see you again.

Daniel

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