Hi, I’m Luke. I’ve worked in Southeast Asia for more ten years, but I’m originally from Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. I’m an educator and independent media professional living on unceded Wadawurrung land.

I’m the Managing Editor of the bilingual Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship (IJBS) and founder, host, and producer of the What’s Happening in Myanmar podcast for Frontier Myanmar. I ran the Myanmar Musings podcast for the Australian National University from 2016-2025. Its over 100 episodes are now archived.

Before my editorship of IJBS, I worked for a few NGOs, media companies, and political analysis organisations. I’ve long held an interest in fermentation, drinks, and cultural change. I published two coffee table books on drink in Southeast Asia with Silkworm Books. I also devised, researched, and wrote the treatment for a short documentary project in Cambodia. I roast my own coffee, mill my own grains, and brew my own beer. You can still try some of my beers in Myanmar and Thailand, brewed by Myanmar’s first craft brewer, the Burbrit Brewery, which I advised from its launch in 2017 to the military coup in 2021.

Contact me at email@lukecorbin.org. I’m sometimes available for work requiring precise language skills and specialist knowledge of Southeast Asia. I particularly enjoy working with artisans and emerging scholars from the Zomia region.