I'm a Wellington-born New Zealander at heart, though I left permanently in 2003. Since then I have lived in Jinju (South Korea), Mumbai, Singapore, Hamburg and now Berlin, Germany.

In 2019 I was accepted into the International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation, offered by the Vermont University of Fine Arts, and graduated in July 2021. My thesis, a manuscript called AFTER THE QUAKE, made the long list for the wonderful Michael Gifkin’s Prize (2022), offered by Text Publishing.

As well as working on my second manuscript, LIMPET, I enjoying writing short stories and personal essays about my life as a New Zealander abroad, motherhood, identity and immigration. I love textile art and spend most zoom calls weaving, stitching or sewing something, and am stoked to be living in Berlin where I can go out and see incredible art any day of the week.

In 2025/26 I am excited to be a Fellow in the Stonybrook BookEnds Manuscript program.

I post about my journey as a writer on my Instagram account .  

Currently…

reading: Just finished Endling by Maria Reva, re-reading Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill and looking at Aednan by Linnea Axelsson next. My Goodreads account is here. Let’s be book friends!

listening to on Audible: The Waves, by Virginia Woolf and Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant.

listening to on Spotify: this lo-fi hiphop playlist is my favourite to write to.

listening to on Podcast: The Paris Review, The Daily, and the Handsome podcast when i need a laugh.

cooking: beans, beans beans, plus I made my first ever foccaccia bread this month and it could be the start of a new obsession..

watching: waiting for the next seasons of Slow Horses and The Diplomat, in the meantime watching Platonic and Ted Lasso with my 12 year old son

writing: my second novel. Lots of ideas about essays too, but I am letting them brew: middle age, motherhood, marriage, identity, books, stories, blue skies and green trees. Writing and thinking about Zines too: short, no pressure, little deep dives. Collage, textile and words coming together somehow.