About

My second poetry book, The Girl Who Cried, is available from HappenStance. Find out more in this interview on Magpie Bridge.

My first full collection, Noir, is too.

Here’s a piece I wrote recently for The Friday Poem.

Poems have appeared in a range of magazines (The Rialto, The North, Smiths Knoll and Magma, among many others), online (for instance, in And Other Poems and The Friday Poem), and in various anthologies. My pamphlet, The Long Woman (Pighog Press), was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award 2012.

An Arts Council award in 2014 helped me complete Noir.

I have an English degree from UCL, and an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development from the University of Sussex.

I worked as an editor – including as Managing Editor of Which?, Editor of Health Which?, and Editor of Viva Lewes, among other roles – and I’m available as a freelance writer and editor.

I also convene The Understory Conversation. Am on the committee of the Needlewriters cooperative in Lewes. And write and co-edit Sphinx poetry pamphlet reviews. 

And I go walking.

This blog – my little corner – will, I hope, let me record and explore some things that interest me: around loneliness, resonance, and what is good writing?