About

I have written fiction for over twenty years and along the way have been drawn to a disparate group of writers who have often have strong speculative or experimental urges or just tell amazing stories (at least in my humble opinion). These include people like Margaret Atwood, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, Lydia Davis, Angela Carter, George Saunders, Deborah Levy, JG Ballard, Kafka, Orwell, Ishiguro, and so many others. I’m an Australian by birth, resident of London and have Finnish roots.

The pages on this blog contain ideas about the writing process and reflections on the novels and short stories I’ve been reading.

I’ve had short stories published in Unsweetened, the University of New South Wales’ annual student anthology, and Birkbeck College’s Mechanics Institutes Review. I studied a BA (Hons) in English and MA in Creative Writing at UNSW and Birkbeck respectively.

Some of my stories have also received minor recognition:

Drought was short listed for BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines programme in 2012.

Halloween received an honorable mention from US short story journal Glimmer Train as part of its February 2015 New Writer Award.

The Occupants was a highly commended story at the London Short Story Prize 2016.

Herd and Splinter won Spread the Word’s ‘City of Stories’ competition for the London borough of Lewisham 2017

Game Theory was shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award, October 2017.