I’m an editor and mentor for Bloomsbury. My first two novels We All Ran Into the Sunlight, 2011 and Season to Taste or How To Eat Your Husband, 2014 were published while I was working as a journalist at The Times. For the last five years I’ve designed and taught creative writing courses for Writers & Artists and received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund and two awards from Arts Council England. Most recently I was given a Work in Progress award from the Society of Authors and the Authors Foundation. In 2025 I co-wrote a screenplay, How To Eat Your Husband, and am working on a triptych of novels exploring attachment trauma, addiction, mental health, intimacy, mothering and loving.

I’m particularly keen to work with people exploring all literary forms and pushing against, rebel-writers, those taking risks in fiction and memoir, writing the dark and difficult, the painful, funny, grotesque. Literary heroes include Shirley Jackson, Elspeth Barker, Clarice Lispector, Maggie Nelson, Annie Ernaux, George Saunders, Max Porter. I’m a yoga teacher and need to spend a lot time in the water 💧…

After many years as a single parent, often lonely and struggling, I now live on a small farm in mid Devon with my partner, our sons when they’re around, and a keen feline huntress :)

…We love to share our home and all its wild and quiet beauty and you can come here to rest, unplug, connect, and make things… For more details, please head over to www.devonwritingretreats.co.uk