Xoài David is a Franco-Vietnamese writer, illustrator, and Third Culture Kid based in Paris. She is one of the xo-founders of Organisation to Decolonise International Schools (ODIS) and has hosted and performed at the Spoken Word Paris open mic scene for many years. After obtaining a degree in Book Design at Ecole Estienne, she did community work centring around the charity shop organisation La Petite Rockette – a more local version of Oxfam with DiY and grassroots workshops. She then obtained an MA in Creative Writing the University of Kent.