About me and my writing

I travelled extensively as a child, living in England, Africa, Wales and Scotland. After leaving school I worked as a cowgirl in Australia, an English teacher in Japan, and my degree in Hispanic Studies took me to Spain where I lived and worked in Catalonia for two years. In 1998 I settled with my husband, raising our family in Glen Lonan, Argyll, on a tenanted hill farm. I love to walk the hills, swim in Loch Etive and explore out of the way places with my pony.

In 2016 I completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Stirling. In March 2020 Sandstone Press published my travel memoir Marram, the story of travelling through the Outer Hebrides with Highland ponies. My poetry pamphlet Ten Minutes of Weather Away was published in 2021 and my debut poetry collection Deerlands will be published by Tapsalteerie Press in 2027. My poetry, fiction and narrative non-fiction has appeared in publications such as Northwords Now, Causeway/Cabhsair, The Blue Nib, Spelt, Dreich, Ink Sweat & Tears, Envoi, Gutter and New Writing Scotland. I have a lyric essay published in Saraband’s There She Goes.

I am currently doing a creative practice PhD with University of the Highlands and Islands looking at Scotland’s deer debate through the writing of poetry, fiction and lyric essay. I am fascinated by human relationships and love in its many forms. Much of my work is influenced by our connection with place and the more-than-human world.