I’m a writer, teacher and campaigner based in Bristol. I’m represented by Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander Associates.

Writing: My first book, Intervals (2024), explores end-of-life choice, care and creativity under austerity. Intervals won the Fitzcarraldo Edition Essay Prize and the Bread and Roses Prize, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, and shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. My writing has also appeared in the Observer, LitHub, Vittles, Parapraxis and is forthcoming in Tolka. I’m currently working on my first novel, Living Arrangements, which has been supported by an Arts Council DYCP award and a K Blundell Trust grant.

Teaching: I teach Creative Non-Fiction for Faber Academy, will be a guest speaker at an Arvon retreat in 2026, and have offered mentoring through the Wellcome Collection’s Creative Non-Fiction Award. I occasionally deliver workshops and guest lectures, most recently on the ‘Poetics of Care’, at the Royal College of Arts.

I have a PhD in English from Birkbeck (University of London), and a BA and MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge. I’ve presented my research internationally and co-edited a special collection for Studies in Romanticism.

Campaigning: I’m the Communications Manager at climate justice collective Platform, working for a just future beyond fossil fuels. Also at Platform, I curate Archive as Catalyst, an arts programme exploring activist archives and movement histories.

Publicity photos - credit: Alexander Burton.