May 2025: Last year, I wrote a short speculative story titled The Birch Tree. A deeply personal story of a family trying to make a new for themselves and the deep sadness that comes from losing one's culture, this was one of the quicker short stories I've written in the last few years. I'm delighted to share that The Birch Tree was recently longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize! Additionally, this piece has been shortlisted for the 2025 Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award! Speculative fiction is such a freeing genre to write in, but it can be alienating and this story is...weird. I'm delighted that it's found readers who get it.
October 2024:
As part of National Poetry Week, my poem, when grief calls, first published in Thimble Literary Magazine, was featured on BBC Upload. You can listen to it here, around the 44-minute mark.​
September 2024:
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I'm extremely excited to announce that my poem, "An Ode to Lost Girls," was nominated for Best of the Net by Does it Have Pockets. You can read the piece here.
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Illustration by Anne Anthony