Following academic books on feminism, art, and Virginia Woolf, I gained a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia/Guardian and am honoured to be shortlisted for prizes, including the Impress and Eyelands prizes. I was mentored by The Literary Consultancy, and Gold Dust. A short story was published on-line by https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/love-in-confinement/ In 2020, my first novel Talland House, was published by a hybrid press She Writes Press, and chosen by the Washington Independent Review of Books as one of its ’51 Favorite Books’ of 2020, alongside Shuggie Bain and Hamnet https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/features/our-51-favorite-books-of-2020#disqus_thread Talland House is a 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Historical (Fiction - Post 1900s) and 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List.
