I am a queer writer whose work crosses science and the arts, covering fact, fiction and the blurry spaces in between. I write monologues about lost and forgotten women’s voices based on interviews, news stories, historical events and the overheard.
I have had poetry, monologues and short stories published in anthologies and monologues performed at events, including the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, Lancaster One Minute Monologues and Queer Spaces at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. I am regularly found reading monologues written about the women of the North Yorkshire coast at a local folk club.
Dancing in Heaven, is my first solo collection of monologues due out in December 2025. It is inspired by the women from all walks of life – carers, lovers, mothers, friends and others – who played often unrecognised roles in the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
My writing about healthcare, medicine and research has been published in the New Scientist, Scientific American and Nature. I write a blog on bereavement and loss called The Widow’s Handbook, and this received the Helen Bailey Award in 2022. I have an MSc from the Open University and an MA in Writing for Performance from the University of Derby.
I live with my wife on the North Yorkshire coast, where I sea swim winter and summer, walk a loud deaf cocker spaniel and a small hairy sausage of a dog, and talk a lot about words and science.
Pronouns - she/her.
About the website name
I used to live in Tideswell, in a house that was the County Bridewell or House of Correction between around 1745 and 1816.
I have had poetry, monologues and short stories published in anthologies and monologues performed at events, including the Oxford Di-Verse Poetry Festival, Lancaster One Minute Monologues and Queer Spaces at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. I am regularly found reading monologues written about the women of the North Yorkshire coast at a local folk club.
Dancing in Heaven, is my first solo collection of monologues due out in December 2025. It is inspired by the women from all walks of life – carers, lovers, mothers, friends and others – who played often unrecognised roles in the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
My writing about healthcare, medicine and research has been published in the New Scientist, Scientific American and Nature. I write a blog on bereavement and loss called The Widow’s Handbook, and this received the Helen Bailey Award in 2022. I have an MSc from the Open University and an MA in Writing for Performance from the University of Derby.
I live with my wife on the North Yorkshire coast, where I sea swim winter and summer, walk a loud deaf cocker spaniel and a small hairy sausage of a dog, and talk a lot about words and science.
Pronouns - she/her.
About the website name
I used to live in Tideswell, in a house that was the County Bridewell or House of Correction between around 1745 and 1816.
