Deepa Paul

Born to Filipino and Indian parents in Manila, the Philippines, Deepa Paul is a freelance writer residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Alongside her work as a copywriter for brands like Netflix, HBO and NBC Universal, Deepa is the author of the forthcoming memoir Ask Me How It Works: Frequently Asked Questions About My Open Marriage. She has read her work at Schmutz Cinema, an arthouse erotic film series, at Body Electric Presents, and at the Felix Meritis Institute in Amsterdam.

She was a sex and intimacy panelist at Come Alive, a large-scale exhibition on the power of pleasure, and featured speaker at the 10th anniversary of De Meerminners, the Netherlands’ longest-running polyamory community.

Her journalistic work has been published in Seventeen Magazine Philippines,The Philippine Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Singapore Women’s Weekly. Her personal essays have appeared in Cheex, Gal-Dem, the Sky Island Journal, Expanded Field and Rappler.

In her Substack newsletter Letters by Deepa, she explores the balance between being a mother, wife, girlfriend, daughter, adventurer and herself—sometimes all at the same time.

Find her on Instagram as @storiesbydeepa.