Writer and teacher of creative writing (specialising in poetry). Currently: fixed-term Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at University of East Anglia. Creative non-fiction book about the urban pastoral out in 2022 with Penned-in-the-Margins, Wife of Osiris (pamphlet) out in 2021 with Verve. 1st collection PBS Spring Guest Choice 2018, short-listed 2020 Laurel Prize.
Publications: Feral City, Penned-in-the-Margins, forthcoming 2022; Wife of Osiris, Verve Poetry Press, 2021 (pamphlet); Natural Phenomena, Penned-in-the-Margins, 2018; The Bridle, Salt, 2011 (pamphlet); Relinquish, Arrowhead Press, 2007 (pamphlet).
Associate Tutor for UEA 2013-2021. Past employment also includes: Tutor for Poetry School; Hourly-Paid Lecturer for Morley College; Workshop facilitator for Oxford Science Festival, AAONB, London Garden Squares; Public Drop-in Workshop Facilitator, Reading Room, Wellcome Collection; Workshop Facilitator, UEA Festival of Literature for Young People; Tutor, Under 18s Week, The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank; Freelance Writer/Facilitator, Inclusion Programme (part-time, seasonal), Museum of London/HMP Wandsworth, Josephine Butler Unit for Young Offenders.
10 years' prior experience of secondary school teaching, nearly 5 years' experience in museum education.