A new poetry pamphlet, The Boat Game, can now be pre-ordered from Stewed Rhubarb. In 2024 I won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry. A pamphlet, Tract, was published by The Well Review in 2023. I’m a Lead Reader for Open Book’s Shetland group.

I'm from County Down and live in Shetland, where I work at Shetland UHI's Centre for Island Creativity. My academic background is in social anthropology. Recent work includes research on knit textiles in Shetland and Ireland, creative practice and creative economies in island places, and arts-based research with care experienced young people.

I teach on the University of the Highlands and Islands’ MA Art and Social Practice and supervise postgraduate research students in Creative Practice.

Face of a white woman with dark red hair wearing glasses and a green jumper agains a red wooden wall