She has documented the 24 Hour Party People era and edited several collections of chemical fiction, including Disco Biscuits in 1997.
Champion started publishing while still going to school in Chorlton, Manchester, producing the fanzine Alarm as a fourteen-year-old on a photocopier.
[1] Leaving school and moving to London for a while, Champion wrote for New Musical Express but then returned to Manchester to become a freelance writer.
This was followed by Disco 2000 — a book about pre-millennial paranoia, Shenanigans — about Ireland after dark, and Fortune Hotel — a collection of twisted travel stories.
Champion visited Bangkok where she worked for Asian pop and travel websites and as a news and business editor for an English language newspaper for two years.