My second novel, Alice & Iris, will be published by Neem Tree Press in April 2026. It’s based on the true story of Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright who, in the early twentieth century, faked photographs and fooled the world into believing they had seen fairies in the West Yorkshire village of Cottingley. Alice & Iris was shortlisted for the 2019 Bath Novel Award, and longlisted for the 2019 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. You can read an extract here: https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/extracts-from-shortlisted-novels/

My first novel, Scapa Flow, set in Orkney during WW1, was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition. My third novel, Come You Out, is based on a true story about a religious cult that existed on the Scottish island of St Kilda in the 17th century. I am working on this novel with my writing mentor, Jill Dawson (Gold Dust Mentoring Scheme).

I am a founder member of the writing group, Angles, based in Cambridge, and I also occasionally write short drama performed by the WRiTEON scriptwriting forum. In 2017 I was Writer In Residence at Rock Road Library. I have an MA in Creative Writing from Anglia Ruskin University.

My play, Drive, was selected as one of three plays to be performed at the Corpus Playroom in Cambridge, in December 2021, as part of an evening of ghost plays called The Shadows. I am currently working with WRiTEON on a verbatim drama project to be staged in 2024.

I am an Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing.