About Me

I’m a writer, editor, and publicist, currently based in London. In 2016, I co-founded the Tangerine, a Belfast-based magazine of new writing.

Since May 2023, I have worked as Senior Publicity Executive at Faber & Faber. Between January 2021 and May 2022, I worked as a Press Officer for Pushkin Press. After leaving my full-time role with the press, I worked freelance on a number of campaigns for Pushkin and other clients, across publicity, marketing, copywriting, and proofreading.

My own writing has appeared in publications including Vogue, Frieze, the Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times, Wire, Stinging Fly, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Winter Papers, and 3:AM.

In 2022, I was a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, where I completed a PhD in Literature (2020) and MA in Poetry (2015). In 2022, I was O’Donnell Fellow in Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne.

In 2021 I was a member of the inaugural cohort of Frieze New Writers, and in 2018 was the winner of the Vogue Talent Contest for Young Writers. My writing has been shortlisted for the Observer/ Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism and the Tony Lothian Prize for first-time biographers (for a proposal on the Irish-American poet Padraic Fiacc); longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize; and highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award.

Homepage image courtesy of Queen’s University Belfast.