Poet and accidental essayist, with work published in various journals, including The Sun, Passages North, New Delta Review, Pleiades, Prelude and Aotearotica. She won the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and the 2017 Lilian Ida Smith Award.
Selected work
- Nonfiction
3
- Poetry
6
- Other
1
when I was fucking a lot of men when I was 19 and 20 (and 18, and 21) I was fully aware that it was partly because I love sex and partly because – having grown up being told I am unlovable – I...
Passages North, 2023
I am a bad house guest, even though I try to be a good guest by minimising the amount of space I take up
Prelude, 2022
the girl in the sundress, standing in front of the shed
The Spinoff, 2022
ode to all the scenes in Insecure where a man is going down on a woman
New Delta Review, 2021
today an editor told me that what I write isn’t poetry and so maybe I don’t know how to write a poem but I was thinking about you and wanted to write something; so here is your something
LEON Literary Review, 2021
flying over fields, I think of my grandfather
MORIA Literary Magazine, 2021
tender lunges
Passages North, 2021
The Lovely Harry, Philip Larkin, And Me
The Sun, 2021
lying in bed with cramps so bad that I want to reach my own hand inside my body and rip my uterus out, I realise that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be highly proficient at stain removal and...
Rogue Agent, 2020
Chris pauses to enjoy the flowering cherry trees near his office, while a small Japanese man stands in front of them saying “beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful” over and over again; ...
Twin Pies Literary, 2020