oldest wisest self – Substack
As a poet and writer living with complex mental illnesses, I write regularly on Substack as an attempt to understand myself, my relationships and an increasingly complicated world through the lens of my illnesses, treatments and craft.
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Poems (online)
Ghost Light Lit Issue #1: Grief Machine (January 2024) – forthcoming
An Irish Wake
Starling Mag (2020)
Slideshow
4th Floor Journal (2016)
Whirinaki
Poems (print)
Reformatting The Pain Scale Anthology (2023) – forthcoming
chronic
Landfall 244 (2022)
Our Little House
Re-draft 15 (2015)
Coins
When Your Therapist Asks Why You’re Crying
Write
Non-fiction
4th Floor Journal (2017)
Mirrors
Fiction
Listen
Selected Performances and Events
Featured poet at Schrödinger’s Books for National Poetry Day
2022
Nelson Arts Festival – Readers and Writers Programme
2017
Awards
Finalist for Best First Book Award
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2018
Finalist for Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2018
Mason Publishing Scholarship
2017
William Campbell Memorial Scholarship – Whitireia Foundation
2016
2015