I’m a writer of narrative non-fiction and memoir, and I work across text, audio, collage, workshops and composting.

I also hosting writing retreats, and Returning, a 10 day writing challenge.

My work responds to themes including daily life, time, work, everyday objects, ambition and interdependence. I’ve worked on oral history projects and contributed to radio. I publish my writing here.

2024-25, I co-ran Devotion, a radical online writing workshop rooted in practice over perfection and bolstering community energy. In 2024 I was one of six artists selected for Pier Peers artist development programme. In 2023 I was the very grateful recipient of an Arts Council DYCP grant.

I’ve written about culture and fashion since 2006 for print and online for Dazed, AnOther and Port, Kinfolk, PORT magazine, New York Magazine’s The Strategist and my blog Discotheque Confusion, which I started as a teenager. I co-created Layers, a podcast about our personal relationships with clothes (made with writer Ana Kinsella and producer Lucy Dearlove). We interviewed dancers, a priest, a war correspondent, athletes and kids, and commissioned original stories (and voice notes) from writers. Previously I was a copywriter at R/GA; there I ran Short Story Club and worked on WomanUp, an internal worker-led initiative to challenge unconscious bias in every aspect of the agency’s work.

I grew up in Bristol raised by my parents, step-parents, my granny, neighbours and friends. I spent half my childhood living in a caravan on a fruit farm. I’ve worked at advertising and design agencies (my copywriting work is here), restaurants, museums and a local newspaper. I was part of this performance about life and time, I was on Universal Credit for a bit, I’ve looked after children, volunteered and, like many others, done work that wasn’t paid or really recognised as real work. I live in Norfolk.

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