Publications

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
Olney Journal (May 2023)
Emotional Impermanence
Peach Mag (March 2023)
working from home
The Spinoff (2022)
Listen, is it love?
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

Turbine | Kapohau (2022)
The Summer I Reclaimed the Beach
Starling Mag (2021)
This New, Brief Body
4th Floor Journal (2017)
Mirrors
Mashed Calculus and Differential Potatoes (2017)
A Policy A Day: Youth Sexuality Education

Fiction

Visible Cities (2023)
A new type of love
4th Floor Journal (2016)
Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong – Excerpt

Listen

Peach Bite – Peach Mag (2023)
working from home – poetry reading
Wellington Access Radio, B-Side Stories (2021)
Al and Erin From Crip The Lit writers’ collective

Selected Performances and Events

Verb – Wellington – “Universe-Hopping with Radical Crip Imagination” (forthcoming)
LitCrawl – Wellington (forthcoming)
2023
Verb – Wellington – “Breaking the mould: acts of writerly sabotage”
2022
Featured poet at Schrödinger’s Books for National Poetry Day
2022
Verb – Wellington – “Writing Resistance: The Problem with Fairytales”
2021
Auckland Writers Festival – “Can We Be Frank?”
2018
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