about  ME

​Originally a Londoner, I now live and write by a sea-loch in the Scottish Highlands, which suits me much better.  Over the past decades, I've worked as a schoolteacher, an arts journalist,  PR to a Scottish politician and PA to an American rock star.   

My literary novelette AIRLOC was published in February 2024 with ELJ Editions of New York. My first poetry pamphlet Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?  came out with London's Hedgehog Poetry Press in August 2022.  And I'm currently Poet In Residence at Inverewe Garden, a famous National Trust For Scotland property in Scotland's Wester Ross.

I'm now concentrating on finishing a full collection, called Huginn & Muninn after Odin's ravens. I'm also working on my first novel, working title Light Switch.   My work has most often been described as speculative, neo-noir or modern gothic, but my main interest is the natural world and the creatures, real and imagined, which wander through it.  Check out my publication history for details of my other work in print and online.

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  AIRLOC
A literary novelette about two old ladies
​and an angel from ELJ Editions
Publication date February 2024
Order (paperback or e-book) on Amazon HERE (UK) or HERE (US)
​Read more about it HERE

​WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO BE DRIVING?
A pamphlet of thirteen ekphrastic poems in
response to the music of David Bowie
​from Hedgehog Poetry Press
​Publication date August 2022
Order (paperback or e-book) on Amazon HERE
​Interviews, press coverage and more about
​the background to the book HERE !!!