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, India and Singapore, and I now live in Hamburg, Germany with my husband, two kids and two cats.

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, I enjoying writing short stories and personal essays about my life as a New Zealander abroad and my mixed race family.  I am also interested in motherhood and identity.

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

I am also, proudly, a Prose Reader for The Adroit Journal, a literary journal that was founded in 2010.

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

Currently…

reading: Colm Toibin’s poetry collection, Vinegar Hill / Anne Tyler’s novel French Brain. My Goodreads account is here. Let’s be book friends!

listening to on Audible: Han Kang’s We Do Not Part .

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.

watching: the horror series, From, with my 16 year old daughter!

writing: my second novel. Lots of ideas about essays too, but I am letting them brew for a while: 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.