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About

I am a poet, tutor, and qualified English teacher with a degree in Creative Writing from UEA, an MA in English Literature from King's College London, a PGCE in Secondary English from Roehampton. I am currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. My work has been published in Poetry London, The London Magazine, The Stinging Fly, Under the Radar, 14 Magazine, and Banshee. I won the 2025 Katrina Collins Poetry Prize and was Highly Commended in the 2023 Cheltenham Poetry Competition. My pamphlet 'woman | folk' is available from Salò Press, with 'mother | lode' forthcoming from Atomic Bohemian in June 2026. I live in Surrey with my husband and three children.

Recent Work

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