Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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I am a Teaching Associate and work as member of ICE's Creative Writing teaching team. My main areas of interest are poetry and creative non-fiction and I run the Creative Non-Fiction module on our MSt in Creative Writing. I also teach on our undergraduate courses.
Since 2000, I have had a varied writing career, publishing poetry collections, creative non-fiction books and one historical novel. As a teacher, I want to create the conditions in which fellow writers can develop their practice and grow in confidence, whatever their chosen genre.
I received my PhD in Creative Writing from Kingston University in 2017. While at Cambridge, I gained my HEA Fellowship. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Creative non-fiction and poetry interest me for their formal possibilities, and for the ways in which these allow the writer to approach subjects in new ways. At the moment, I am writing a book of poems for Bloodaxe Books, which is experimental in its formal approach.
My most recent non-fiction book, Letters to my Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism, uses the epistolary form to explore my experience as a late-diagnosed autistic woman, and the lives of women from history who, in their own times, were regarded as strange. I make use of feminist and critical disability theory to enable me to do this.
As both a writer and teacher, I am passionate about inclusion, particularly as it relates to disabled people.
I am also interested in the creative process, and the phenomenology of writing practice.
Member of Society of Authors
Fellow of the RSA
