I write creative non-fiction about nature, the environment, sense of place, and parenting. I also write book reviews from time to time.
I started journaling at nine. At sixteen, I was selected to be a Young Writer in Residence at Manchester’s Contact Theatre and had my short play “The Dove in the Magnolia” performed by a cast of professional actors, including an early role for Fisayo Akinade (fun fact!).
In 2012, I earned an MA in Writing, Nature and Place from the University of Exeter, and in 2021 I was accepted onto the highly selective Orion Magazine Environmental Writers’ Workshop. Some of my fellow workshop participants and I formed a writing group called Ursa Minor Writing Group that meets once a month to share and provide feedback on our writing.
I am currently working on my first memoir, Tethered, which explores home, belonging, mental health, and motherhood.
Select creative non-fiction
- Smash it ’til you break in MUTHA Magazine (2022)
- Funny weather in FieldFair (print only; 2022)
- Postcards and boxes in Sea & Cedar Magazine (2021)
- I came late to a love of birds in Zoomorphic Magazine (2019)
- Shopping centres, caves and the fate of us all in The Learned Pig (2018)
Book reviews and author interviews
- A Review of The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood in Literary Mama (2021)
- Q&A with Tamara Goranson for Victoria Festival of Authors (2021)
- A Review of My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story in Literary Mama (2020)
- Q&A with jaye simpson for Victoria Festival of Authors (2020)
You can also see some of my writing on my Substack This Little Life, and read about my urban nature writing projects.