I am a poet and writer from Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

My work has been published in journals, magazines and anthologies, including About Larkin, Obsessed With Pipework, Openings, Tale of 3 Cities, The Magazine, Raw Edge, Writing Magazine, Staple, The Coffee House and Smiths Knoll.

My poems have either won or been highly commended in a number of poetry competitions (and subsequently published in competition anthologies) including: The Barnet Open; Charnwood Mini-Words; Northamptonshire Anne Tibble Prize; Birmingham Literary Festival; Kent & Sussex Open Poetry; Leicester Mercury Millennium Prize; Lancaster LitFest, Clevedon Litfest and Leicester Poetry Society. 

I have over 20 short stories published. Recent stories have appeared in the 2022 Hammond House International Writing Prize Collection; Waterstones/Sunderland University short story anthologies for 2017 and 2018; Crossing the Tees 2022 and 2024 short story anthologies. In 2024 my short stories Last Christmas and Return of the Egrets were short-listed for the Parracombe Prize and Plaza Short Story Prize, and were included in the respective competition’s anthologies.

In 2019, I was the recipient of the Philip Larkin Society Poetry Prize in the East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition; and in 2021 and 2022 I was awarded the Gold Prize in the same competition. In 2020 I was awarded 3rd prize in the Walter Swann/Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition.

For 2025, I have new poems in, or forthcoming in, The Fig Tree Webzine and its Coal Mining Special, Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology, High Wolds Poetry Collection, Theleme Zine, Obsessed With Pipework, and Echoes – 20 years of Write Out Loud.

I have contributed to a number of the Philip Larkin Society’s Tiny in All That Air podcasts, filmed poems for their YouTube channel and delivered my poetry presentation, Living One Street from Larkin, at the society’s 2024 conference at Hull University. In 2023 I was commissioned to write and perform a selection of my work at the East Riding Theatre for A Joyous Shot: an Evening of Poetry and Music, which was part of the Philip Larkin in Beverley mini-festival.

I have been Festival Poet at the Stage 4 Beverley Festival since 2024. In this role I deliver workshops; perform at the festival curtain raiser shows– including organising and emceeing the open-mic poetry performances; and I have supported Roger McGough in his ‘Alive & Gigging’ tour appearance at the festival. My solo show, Yarn Bombing and Other Poems, debuted at the 2025 festival, and a follow-up show, How to Fold a Paper Aeroplane, will be staged in 2026.

I have a BA (2016) and MA (2022) in Creative Writing from the Open University, and I am a member of The Poetry Society and The Philip Larkin Society.