I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Operations Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community worker, arts administrator, & writing mentor specialising in working class and female voices. From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project. I am a Trustee at Spread the Word writer’s charity.

I am also a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and magazines; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.

As a researcher I have received awards for my university research, presented at conferences, and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, widening access to the arts, information access, autoethnography, community engagement, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, psychogeography; and participatory research.

The Edgelands

I am currently over on Substack with a publication called The Edgelands – experimental pieces that walk the edgelands between experiences, history, memory, imagination, and physical geographies. I am using themes of placeness, dereliction, psychogeography, the othered and brutalised body, power systems, counter-mapping, belonging and community, and rural and urban walking. Click the button below to explore my archive.

The Edgelands