Hi! My name’s Ash Brom, a bestselling author in several dimensions but not yet in this one.

I’m a writer, editor, proofreader, reviewer, publisher, website designer, and English as an Additional Language teacher. In the past I’ve been many different things, including bartender, kitchenhand, sheet metal warehouse worker, event organiser, receptionist, accountant, actor, stand-up comedian, kindergarten teacher, DJ, photographer, tree planter, kittysitter, pick packer, short filmmaker, kid’s camp manager, voting booth assistant, ghostwriter, ghost editor, and, once in Wuhan, China, I was paid to look German for an afternoon. 

I spent eight and a half years in China, and self-published my memoirs of this period as Chicken Same Duck Talk: Diary of an Australian Teacher in China (鸡同鸭讲: 澳洲老师的日记) in 2019, ISBN 9780646804521.

I’ve had stories, poems, reviews, interviews and feature articles printed in Australia, China and Timor-Leste. 

In this dimension I’m a bipedal, endothermic vertebrate, and a slave to oxygen, gravity and sustenance. I’m currently a mammal, but hope one day to be an octopod.

The photos are me at Longmen Grottoes (Longmen Shiku - 龙门石窟), in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan province, China, on a boat from Dili to Atauro Island, Timor-Leste, and with some wonderful friends at Wye River, on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.