Originally from Hungary, I graduated from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Psychology and an MA in Human Resource Management, and I still live in the city with my partner.
In my day job, I’m an HR professional. I love the challenges and the variety I experience through my work, but writing is something I’m passionate about. Becoming a writer had been a dream of mine for quite some time now, but it was in November 2020 when I first joined a local writing group. I've found the feedback from the group and the tutor’s insights invaluable in writing my first novel, which I got to a first draft stage within six months of starting it and which had been long listed last year in the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021.
Late in 2021 I started work on my second novel after reflecting on my own health journey. Having been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition in my late twenties and having been on my own health journey made me want to create a story that people dealing with similar chronic conditions could relate to; especially after realising how many people are affected by autoimmune disease across the world. I've read many medical and self-help books through the years and whilst they had been invaluable in their own right, connecting with the condition through a fictional story provides a different kind of therapy and writing it certainly does that for me.
