My name is Paul Crask. I’m from England and I’ve been living and working in Dominica since 2005.

I’ve written travel and culture articles for international and regional publications, authored four editions of two Bradt guidebooks, and produced several independent magazines, including Dominica Traveller, Dominica Geographic, and Gade Mwen.

In 2024, after about 20 years spent promoting the island with my work, I decided to step away from travel journalism and focus more broadly on culture writing and photography, as well as some fiction.

I’ve also taken up art, sketching whimsical and imagined urban landscapes in ink and watercolour. I’m really enjoying the process as well as learning about art and art history through books and travel. I’m a keen gardener (I’ve written several articles for Hortus gardening journal), and I cultivate and roast my own coffee (I call it Blue Parrot).

I’ve spent a lot of my life on the move. I grew up in the north of England; first Lincolnshire, then Lancashire, and finally Yorkshire. In 1988, I graduated from the University of Leeds with an honours degree in German Language and Literature. At university, I worked as a journalist for the award-winning Leeds Student newspaper, writing film and theatre reviews. I also studied behind the iron curtain at the former Karl Marx University of Leipzig in what used to be East Germany, where I was followed everywhere by the secret police (Stasi). In addition to ten years as a legaltech project manager in London, I’ve also lived and worked in Germany (one year as a teacher) and Japan (two years as a teacher).

I’m rather introverted and find social events difficult and small talk impossible. My happy places are in the garden, the forest, and walking the streets of my favourite cities, enjoying galleries, markets, green spaces, and architecture. Although Dominica has become my home, I still consider myself a nomadic Englishman, and my perspectives of place are offbeat and different.

Email: paulcrask@gmail.com

Instagram: @paulcrask