I grew up in Thurrock in Essex but I have lived most of my life in Cornwall in the shadow of Carn Brea. Formerly a teacher, I now write poetry and short fiction and have been fortunate enough to find homes for my writing in close on a hundred different magazines and journals as well as in an increasing number of themed anthologies. Most recently, these have included Journey to Crone (Chuffed Buff Books), Poised in Flight (A Kind of a Hurricane Press), Not Somewhere Else But Here (Sundress Publications) and Mother is a Verb (Red Paint Hill).  My poetry chapbook, Moths in a Jar (Palores). appeared in 2012 and my short story collection, Old Soldiers, Old Bones and Other Stories, came out the following year. I am soon to be represented in a new anthology of the work of Kernow-based poets which is being edited by Dr Alan Kent. Wave Hub (Francis Boutle) is due to appear in September, 2014.

     I am a member of the Penzance Writers’ Café writing group and a founder member of ‘Ladies First’, a trio of local poets and I also perform with my partner, David Rowland as ‘The Fool and the Liar’. I have appeared at festivals and events throughout Cornwall and I am available for readings and workshops. I am a Red River Poet, a member of Loose Muse Conrwall and alsp the South West branch of Lapidus.

     In 2012, l won Lisa Thomas Poetry Prize with my poem ‘After Midnight’ and my work has twice been Highly Commended in the Tacchi-Morris Art Centre’s The Page is Printed Competition. My poem Lady Convolvulus was a winner in the 2012 Hysteria Writing Competition and this, year, 2014, My Father Sits upon a Shelf was Highly Commended in the Rhyme and Reason Writing Competition. In 2013, I was a Pushcart nominee for her poem ‘Still Life’ which appeatred in Literary Juice. I am one of the judges for this year's Hysteria Writing Competition.

     Since 2012, I have been joint editor with Hamish Mack of the on-line poetry magazine ‘Poetry 24’ and, with Duncan Yeates, I have edited two editions of ‘Murder of Krows’. These anthologies seek to provide a platform for emerging Kernow-based poets.  Over the past few years, I have been closely associated with The Melting Pot Cafe at Krpwji, The Old Grammar School. Redruth where, with the help and support of the ownr, Ben Read, and my partner, David Rowland. I have organised a number of events under the title of 'Words and Music' and 'Blackbirds in a Pie Presents'. The little dog in the photograh is Percival Dog Esquire whom David and I found tied to a railing and abandoned near the Great Flat Lode at Druids Lodge. He lives with us now.