I am a writer, history postgraduate and bookseller, specializing in literary short fiction and prose. In 2018 I was shortlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Award for my story, ‘In the Mountain Lives a Woman’.

Over the past two years my work has been published in three short fiction anthologies (Electric Reads; Autonomy; Ryedale Book Festival) and a selection of my long-form journalism and literary essays have been published in a range of international digital and print publications including, Oh Comely Magazine, ELL Magazine (Beijing), Elsewhere Journal and Girls That Gig. In September 2018 my story, ‘Route of Flight’, won the Ryedale Book Festival Short Story Award, judged by Chris Power, author of the collection, Mothers.

Landscape is an intrinsic part of my writing, with my creative and academic work focusing upon physical geography, the transition between places, and the notion of “home”. This is in part due to my postgraduate historical research, which explored place-based memorialisation in both Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland – examining how communities and individuals can imbed narratives of the past into the physical landscape that surrounds them.

Notes in the Margins is a space for writing that explores and dissects literature in its wider social, political and environmental context, and asks questions about the power of words today. It is a collection of essays and articles, written by me, about books I have read and which I have loved.