About me

A long time ago I did a creative arts degree, focusing equally on visual arts and writing. More recently I took a creative writing MA at Lancaster University, graduating with distinction in 2013.

I am exploring abstraction in photography, taking small details from the street and giving them a new scale and context. In 2018 I was the artist representing the Isle of Man at the Festival Interceltique in Lorient, France, with a collection of art photographs and films. The exhibition formed the basis for my book, House of water, published in May 2019 with sponsorship from Culture Vannin, the Manx Heritage Foundation.

My art photography has featured in shows around the world, and my videopoems and experimental films have been selected for international festivals and prizes including the Aesthetica Art Prize and the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. In 2021 I won the Ó Bhéal International Poetry Film Competition. I am a member of the creative photographers' collective Shutter Hub. 

​My poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Magma, Poetry News, Lighthouse, The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, and Fanfare: Poems by Contemporary Women Poets. I have won prizes in many different competitions, and in 2019 won the Frosted Fire Firsts prize, with my pamphlet collection A bag of sky published as a result.