Magazine Writers

Alan Paul chases his kids Jacob (10), Eli (6) and Anna (4) in between writing his column, "The Expat Life," for the Wall Street Journal Online and playing gigs with his band, Woodie Alan.

After having lived in Beijing for ten years, Alex Crossman started her freshman year in Wake Forest University in North Carolina in the fall of 2007. Between keeping up with her classes and her new life in the States, Alex misses eating chuan'r back in Beijing.

A student at Yew Chung International School, Chinese-born Malaysian citizen Brian Lim lived in Cambodia and Malaysia before coming to Beijing in 2005.

Donna Scaramastra Gorman is a freelance writer and mother of four. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor.

Ellis Pugh has been a resident of England, Wales, Hong Kong and most recently Beijing before heading back to England to attend university at Durham. He will be reporting regularly on life in college for beijing-kids.

When he's not busy raising his son, Martin Adams is a freelance writer. During his three and a half years in Beijing, he has also been a warm weather kung fu practioner.

Rececca Kanthor has been living in China since 2002. She invites all who love knitting and crocheting, or those who want to learn, to join the Beijing Yarn Appreciation Club. E-mail rotogobo@gmail.com for more information.

Sarah Cooper started her own business Cows from my window after coming to Beijing with 3-month-old Elsa, who is now going on 3 years old.

Verity Williams lived in Colombia and Malawi before moving to Beijing last summer and currently attends Harrow International School Beijing.