I have a BA in Comparative Literature, an MA in Shakespeare Studies and a PhD in Elizabethan drama; I have spent most of my working life teaching literature in universities in the UK.

My book-length publications include a collection of stories, Temptation: A User’s Guide (Salt 2018), a novel in dialogue, Good Day?, (Salt 2019) – shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize – autofiction, Only A Lodger… And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and a novella, ‘Bruno and Adèle’ in Shorts III (Platypus Press, 2021).
My latest novel, Waiting for a Party, was published by Salt in November 2024.

I write literary fiction and work on developing narrative techniques that suit the story and are of our time. My Pantheon includes Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Woolf,  Beckett, Sebald, Josipovici, Duras and Krasznahorkai.

Apart from literature, I am passionate about art and admire the work of Vélasquez, Goya, Atget and Manet.

Cosmopolitan by temperament and outlook, I was born in Croatia, and lived most of my life in Britain. These days, I spend a greater part of the year in a small village in Poitou-Charentes.