"A veritable Swiss Army knife of a creative... single-handedly disabused me of the notion that you can either write poetry or sell. Turns out that if you’re good enough, you can do both."
– Andrew Nattan, The Essential Writer's Reading List
As a freelance copywriter, editor, communications consultant, poet, critic, journalist and blogger, I know that "all the fun's in how you say a thing." I'm well-versed in using words in different ways, for different purposes and for different audiences. Who's your audience?
I have worked in bookselling, public relations and communications, in a range of comms roles in the not-for-profit sector, and with independent clients. I have been a writer of some kind ever since I could write. (In fact, before I could write I dictated.)
My full collection, Me and the Dead, is published by Salt. A pamphlet, Oscar & Henry, is due out in January with Rack Press.
My reviews, critical essays and articles appear in the UK and the United States; I write for the Contemporary Poetry Review, The London Magazine, The Guardian and others.
I write a poetry blog, Baroque in Hackney, and a PR & copywriting blog, Text Pixels. If you join my mailing list you can receive the Text Pixels e-newsletter, free, every two months!
I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the National Union of Journalists.
I live in Stoke Newington, London, and have three teenagers.