About

I’m a writer living in Geelong, Australia. I mostly write fiction that sits somewhere between the real and the unreal, usually with an irreverent streak. I have an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in creative writing at Deakin University in Geelong. I like reading things that surprise me. I believe that the comic and the tragic are often found in one breath. I'm Australian but deeply suspicious of the idea. I’ve lived in several places outside of Australia but always find my way back to Wadawurrung country, in southern Victoria, where I was born. For money, I’ve taught creative writing, analysed processes, managed projects and people, and sold books, but rarely at the same time. I’ve published work in places like The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, and The Big Issue. In 2020 I won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for my novel, Hovering. My second novel, Arborescence, will be published by Hachette Australia in July 2025, and by Fleet in the UK in January 2026.

Publications, awards, and other things that happened

Straight to You - short story published in Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined, 2024

Shortlisted for Aurealis Awards (Science Fiction) for Hovering, 2023

Shortlisted for Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction for Hovering, 2022

Kill Your Darlings Book of the Month, April 2022 - Shelf Reflection

Readings Fiction Book of the Month, March 2022

Meanjin blog, March 2022 - Patience

Hovering, March 2022

The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, February 2022 - Is the city I used to know still there?

Meanjin blog, June 2021 - What I’m Reading

Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, April 2020 - Avoiding it: writing fiction about place without writing about it

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, 2020, for Hovering

Text Special Issue No. 49 on Writing and Gaming, July 2018 - Making it old and new: Intermedial print-digital approaches to the novel as response to media competition

The Molotov Cocktail Prize Winners Anthology Volume 2, December 2016

The Molotov Cocktail, Halloween 2015 - Table

The Dalhousie Review, Spring 2015 - Economy of Movement

Sleepers Almanac 9, 2014 – Interior/exterior

Tincture Journal, Issue 4 2013 – Man in city has city

21D, Issue 4 2013 – In the gaps between coordinates

Sleepers Almanac 8, 2013 – Salad bar

Page Seventeen, 2012 – Stalks

The Big Issue Fiction Edition, 2012 – Pretend we’re not here

Windmills, 2010 – Follicle, In the back seats of a collapsing theatre

Verandah 24, 2009 – In paper hallways