About

Abigail King is a freelance writer specializing in travel writing for both print and online publications and medical writing for academic journals.

Her work has been published in National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel, France Today, easyJet Traveller, Desert Leaf, Athletics Weekly, the Emergency Medical Journal, Critical Care and more.

Abigail King read Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge before completing her medical training at Imperial College, London. She then worked as a hospital doctor specializing in Emergency Medicine from 2002 to 2008.

She squeezed two round-the-world trips into her medical schedule as well as a course on Wilderness Medicine at Oxford University and one on Extreme Medicine & Antarctica at the Plymouth base.

Abigail King spent two months in Moshi, Tanzania, working with children in the local hospital, KCMC. She has lived in France and is able to interview sources in French. 

She’s currently in Seville and her Spanish is coming along nicely.

References: available on request