Valerie Khoo is the National Director of the Australian Writers' Centre which she established in 2005. The centre offers writing courses to the public in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.[1] She is also a writer, podcaster, visual artist and former journalist.[2][3]
In 2018, Khoo was appointed the City of Sydney's Curator of the Sydney Lunar Festival.[4] Khoo is the co-host of the long-running podcasts So You Want to be a Writer (with children's author Allison Tait)[5] and So You Want to be a Photographer (with photographer Gina Milicia).[6] She also hosts the podcast series New stories, Bold Legends: Stories from Sydney Lunar Festival.[7]
Graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics in 1991,[8] Khoo has since worked as an accountant, in public relations, as a features writer for magazines, and as a freelance journalist. She is the author of six books.[2][9] In 2000, she was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Communication from the University of Technology Sydney.[10]
Khoo was born in Singapore and migrated to Sydney with her parents when she was four years old.[4]