What if all the stories I told you are true… especially the lies?
A writer and illustrator with a focus on magical realism, I’m fascinated by the concept of truth.
Who told you magic wasn’t real? Who told you this is how the world works? Who told you “supposed to”?
In my work, I use magical realism as a vehicle to deconstruct what we know to be “true” or “possible”, to deconstruct the societal structures we take for granted by viewing the world through a different lens.
If I change the way I see the world, the world changes.
I think that’s the importance and power of art. It allows us to challenge what we “know”. It gives us new lenses through which to see the world. It creates worlds more beautiful and magical than the hyperreality we exist in, and we all need a little bit more of that.
I was a bookish child, who grew up knowing I was going to be a writer. I took my first degree in English at Bangor University and later got my Masters in Creative Writing through the Open University.
Winner of the Cheltenham International Poetry Prize and a run of flash fiction competitions in my teens and twenties, I also wrote travel and lifestyle articles as a freelancer for a number of well known websites and magazines. While I now write primarily for this blog, you’ll occasionally find my work in Creative Non-Fiction publications.
In 2024, I was longlisted for the Amy McRae Award for Memoir and shortlisted for the Lascaux Prize for non-fiction.
In 2025, my short story, ‘Cacao’, was published by Hippocampus Magazine. Read it here.
I started illustrating my work late on and still consider myself a baby artist who doodles. My fairytale-esque illustrations are whimsical, deliberately unreal experimentations and ideas. I primarily work in ink and acrylic. You can find some of my doodles on the Sketchbook page.
Here’s hoping you find your own…
