About
I am a Bristol-based writer, editor, and educator. I recently earned my PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, where I was studying English and Creative Writing on a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship. At Queen’s, I wrote my first novel and a critical thesis on food, gender, and literature. I moved to the UK from my home country of Canada to study an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2016.
Since my MA, I have taught Creative Writing to adults and young people in academic and community settings, including Queen’s University, the National Centre for Writing, and Queenswood Girls School, where I spent a year as Writer-in-Residence. As an educator, I aim to equip my students with the tools, confidence, and encouragement to feel excited and empowered to begin writing.
I write and teach across a wide range of literary forms and styles, and I especially love literary and speculative novels and short stories, hybrid forms and experimental writing, poetry, and memoir. My work has been nominated for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Journey Prize, the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition, the Australian Book Review’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Mogford Food and Drink Writing Prize, the Grindstone International Novel Prize, and others. This year, I am also delighted to be a reader for the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize.
