I am a writer, poet, editor, and researcher based in the West Midlands.

Poetry

My poetry has been published widely in journals and anthologies, including Magma, Under the Radar, New Welsh Reader, Propel, Lighthouse, and Ink Sweat & Tears.

Academic Writing

I have published widely on Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, H.G. Wells, post-apocalyptic literature (specifically that depicting the Last Man on Earth), and the Gothic. I am the author of the Connell Short Guide to the Gothic and my essays have been published in leading journals including Romanticism and The Byron Journal, and in the Encyclopaedia of the Gothic (Wiley-Blackwell). I have also written articles for English Review, Issues in English, and The Conversation. I have reviewed for Romanticism, The Byron Journal, British Academy Review, The BARS Review, The Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, and La Questione Romantica. I hold degrees (including a PhD) in English Literature from the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol. I have taught at the University of Oxford as a lecturer and a postdoctoral Fellow. I am a former British Academy Rising Star award holder. My research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Editing

I am an editor at Dust Poetry, an online poetry magazine. I have guest- edited issues of Issues in English and Romantic Textualities.

Other

I am a Writing West Midlands Room 204 writer and a 2025/26 Nine Arches Press Dynamo Poet. I was a member of the inaugural Emma Press Birmingham Editorial Readers Group, which involved being a first reader of manuscripts following an open submissions call and reading long-listed manuscripts from another call in order to form a shortlist and ultimately assist in choosing three manuscripts to publish. I have been longlisted for the Nine Arches Press Primers competition (2023) and longlisted for the Dai Fry Award (2022).