Maigaelle Moulene
Author of the Midwife of Saigon

Maigaelle Moulene is a French-Vietnamese doctor-turned-writer, author of The Midwife of Saigon. She has a liberal arts degree from Columbia University, which included creative writing classes, and a medical and surgical degree from St. George’s, University of London, where she delivered babies, looked after dementia patients, and everyone in between. She trained at St. Mary’s Hospital and worked at Imperial College as a GP Registrar. Previously, she worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres in New York, raising public awareness of refugee camps, and has also volunteered at International Medical Corps in London, where she researched and helped write a chapter of the Sphere Humanitarian Handbook. She spent a lot of time in Vietnam in her 20s, volunteering in cerebral palsy orphanages and doing a medical elective at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). She is a Faber Academy and a Golddust graduate. Her writing has appeared in the Saturday Times Magazine, the Times, Female First, MyBaba Magazine, Corner Magazine and more. She wrote her first novel, The Beta Mum, Adventures in Alpha-Land, after she stopped working as a doctor and became a mother. This is her first historical novel. When she isn’t researching or writing her novels, she writes for a travel and wellness website. She lives in London with her husband and her two daughters.