About me

A long time ago I did a creative arts degree, focusing equally on visual arts and writing. More recently I graduated with distinction from the creative writing MA at Lancaster University.

I am exploring abstraction in photography, giving a new scale and context to often overlooked everyday views. I was lucky enough to be the artist representing the Isle of Man at the Festival Interceltique in Brittany, with a collection of art photographs and films. The exhibition formed the basis for my book of poems and images House of water, supported by 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. I have won the Ó Bhéal International Poetry Film and Filmetry competitions, and best international poetry short at the Bloomsday Film Festival, among several other awards. 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 awards in many different competitions, and in my pamphlet collection A bag of sky won the Frosted Fire Firsts prize.