I'm a Wellington-born New Zealander at heart, though I left permanently in 2003. Since then I have lived in South Korea, India and Singapore, and I now live in Hamburg, Germany with my husband, two kids and two cats.

In 2019 I was lucky to be accepted into the International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation, offered by the Vermont University of Fine Arts, and graduated in July 2021.

I love reading and writing realistic fiction. My favourite authors are ones that can capture what it feels like to be a human on this planet in the simple stroke of a sentence. That's my aim as a writer. 

As well as working on my second manuscript, I enjoying writing short stories and personal essays about my life as a New Zealander abroad and my mixed race family.  I am also interested in motherhood and identity.

In 2025/26 I am excited to be a Fellow in the Stonybrook BookEnds Manuscript program.

I am also, proudly, a Prose Reader for The Adroit Journal, a literary journal that was founded in 2010.

I post about my journey as a writer on my Instagram account .  

Currently…

reading: Katherine Mansfield short stories (I’m doing an online course via Literature Cambridge). I’ve just finished a couple of great Shirley Hazzard books and have started James Salter’s Light Years. Next on the list is Mammoth, the final novella in Eva Baltasar’s brilliant trilogy. As always, my to-be-read pile is a teetering tower of glee beside my bed. My Goodreads account is here. Let’s be book friends!

listening to on Audible: I’ve just finished Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch, which was equal parts brilliant and terrifying. I have Niall Williams’ This is Happiness to listen to next but am taking a break for a week from audiobooks as I find them absolutely absorbing and addictive, much to the detriment of my own writing and work.

listening to on Spotify: this lo-fi hiphop playlist is my favourite to write to.

listening to on Podcast: The Paris Review, The Daily, and the Handsome podcast when i need a laugh.

cooking: summer salads, finally!

watching: about to start the Palm Royale series, and I’m trying to find an evening to watch the movie Diane (2018).

writing: my second novel. Lots of ideas about essays too, but I am letting them brew for a while: middle age, motherhood, marriage, identity, books, stories, blue skies and green trees.