Georgia Frances King is a freelance cultural journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.
Although she is still completing her Bachelors in Professional Communication majoring in Journalism and Philosophy/Literature at RMIT University, she is published weekly in a series of both local and national sources.
Georgia took some time out last year to scratch the bite that the travel bug has infected her with. She spent the first part of 2008 volunteering in a rural tribe near the Pakastani border in India. Plane crashes, terrorist attacks, and caste riots included, she has come away from her experience with knowledge, maturity, a tattoo, two parasites, and enough Hindi to get free taxi rides at 3am through Melbourne.
Then it was off to backpack solo around the old Soviet block in Eastern Europe - Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Montenagro, Slovenia, et cetera. She was in Belgrade the day that Kardzic (the leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Yugoslav war) was caught, and ended up celebrating with the communal youth. This ended up with her finding herself on a strip club floating down the Sava River. She maintains to the authorities that she didn't know it was a porn boat when she boarded. A week after disembarking, she was robbed by Albanian gypsies in a ruin, and then Heathrow lost the rest of her possessions three days later. Karma left over from India, obviously.
Ready to start anew, she then lost half of her bank balance when she flew into New York the day of the recession-starting $800 billion dollar bailout. Between doing an internship working as the editorial assistant in the ACP's New York bureau and studying creative writing with Gotham City Writers, she managed to eat a lot of blueberry bagels and make mates with the John Lennon besotted homeless community at Strawberry Fields.
She's now home, safe but not sane, spending her days transcribing interviews and her nights at various gig joints and theatre venues around Melbourne.
And she can talk the knickers off a nun if you let her.
This website includes a selection of her published work from Inpress magazine (Victoria's largest streetpress), fasterlouder.com.au (Australia's largest online music community), The Brag and Drum in Sydney, and Tsunami magazine (for which she is the Melbourne correspondant).