Hello.

I am a writer living and working on the sovereign, unceded, lands of the Bunurong People.

My first book, Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the dead, was published by Upswell in 2023. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.

Right now, I am working on a biographical project called Private Feelings. It is a postmortem portrait of two ordinary women whose lives keep receding from history. This is a slippery work of outsider truths, small-town fictions, everyday omissions and historic exhumations.  

I am grateful to have received funding from Creative Victoria to support the early development of this work.

I’ve published work in The Sydney Review of Books, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Lit Hub, Writing from Below, Cordite Poetry Review, Art + Australia.

I teach creative nonfiction at the University of Melbourne. For me, teaching, like writing, is about thinking deeply and carefully, out loud, with many voices.