About me
I am committed to exploring, peeling back layers, narratives, and behaviours, so to example and celebrate.
I am a writer and facilitator driven to understand the messy and wild human experience in greater depth.
I’ve been commissioned by Radio 4, read my work on the BBC and my writing has been described as ‘Mesmerising’ in the Guardian. I have performed in numerous venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum and Southbank Centre.
I have also performed at music and literary festivals throughout the UK, and poetry readings have taken me to Turkey, Romania, America, Sweden and South Africa.
My work
I am the author of collections Talk You Round Till Dusk (Burning Eye, 2015), All the Journeys I Never Took (Burning Eye, 2017) and my last book, Arts Council funded Singing My Mother’s Song (Burning Eye, 2019). In 2016 I received an MA in creative writing and a distinction for my final manuscript and in 2017 I toured an Arts Council funded one-on-one immersive spoken word show, under the same title as my second collection.
My work has been published in magazines such as Magma, Oh Comely, Ink, Sweat and Tears and Mslexia.
For the previous two years I taught the Performance Poetry module and Creative Writing to BA students at Bath Spa University and have been writer in residence for various institutes and organisations, including First Story and Wits University, Johannesburg
Dreaming
When not doing any of the above I can be found talking in a high pitched voice to my cat Onion, dreaming of space travel, laughing wildly with my friends, dancing with my daughter, following the ocean, drinking coffee and staring open mouthed at the sun, wondering how I made it this far.
