Nigel Simmonds

Longtime Bali resident and former Yak Magazine Editor, Nigel Simmonds went from media executive mogul to solitary confinement from drug charges.

He has recently launched a paperback about his time in Bali that explores the reasons why so many foreigners choose to escape the rat race to move to an island so often pegged as ‘paradise’.

Talks

The Thing Outside the Window

Nigel Simmons was a respected editor-in-chief and lifestyle magazine editor who became a drug addict and was eventually arrested for crystal meth. In prison, he had an experience with a benevolent presence that he called "the room." After making the...