I’m a Scottish-born writer of Welsh and Irish heritage, drawn to the fault lines where identity, memory, discernment, belonging and perception begin to shift.

My work is rooted in lived experience, psychological enquiry and a lifelong fascination with what makes people become who they are. I write from inside the mess of things - family, love, rupture, power, shame, longing, home - and then stand back far enough to examine the mechanics.

My current manuscript, Daughter of the Quiet Fire: Hiraeth and the Many Pathways Back to Home, is a collection of linked memoir essays tracing the long, unruly process of learning to trust your own perception. It moves through childhood, psychiatric nursing, marriage, motherhood, therapy, spiritual seeking, loss and belonging with an eye that is unsentimental, psychologically alert and occasionally very darkly amused.

I’m less interested in tidy redemption than in what remains when the old stories fall away - and what becomes possible when we finally stop abandoning what we know.

I’m based on the south coast of England.

Selected Writing Achievements

• Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize 2019 - Cleanliness is Next to Godliness - Longlisted.

• Dismantling Press 2026 - Asylum - Shortlisted.

• Field Notes was selected for the second round of the 2026 Bridport Prize Short Story Competition, placing it in the top 7% of entries.

• Completed memoir manuscript 2026 - Daughter of the Quiet Fire: Hiraeth and the Many Pathways Back to Home (82,000 words).

• Yeovil Literary Prize 2026 - Coercion (Writing Without Restrictions)‍ ‍- Shortlisted.