I’m a writer, teacher and storyteller living in Leicestershire.

A former primary teacher, I teach a creative writing night class for Loughborough University's LU Arts and am a doctoral researcher in Applied Storytelling in the School of Design and Creative Arts.

As a freelancer, I lead writing and storytelling activities for adults and children in my local area and beyond. Since April 2020 have delivered online writing workshops for the Royal Voluntary Service's Virtual Village Hall.

I've a strong interest in helping people tell stories of self, place and belonging, and of writing and collecting such stories myself - whether my own or forgotten local heritage stories. I have an MA in Creative Writing and am accredited as a writing coach through the Arvon Foundation and the National Association of Writers in Education.

And sometimes, amongst all these things, I find a little time to write, too! Historical fiction and non-fiction, stories for children and reams and reams of memoir pieces - which I kid myself I'll pull into a book one day and publish, but so far haven't.

Helping others tell their stories is a bit of a passion. Finding the emotional courage to share my own more widely, however, is still a work in progress.

Too many bits and bobs to share here but I've self-published a few books and have featured in a few 'properly published' works of others, too. My children’s book - ‘Songster, Loughborough’s Own War Horse’ was published by the Carillon Tower and War Memorial Museum in 2018, making me a slightly bigger fish than I previously was in my own small pond. My ambition is to be recognised and mobbed, one day, in the local market place and I will report back here when I am.