About Me + CV

I was previously a journalist for several years, specialising in culture, society, heritage and news for printed publications and online.

I also have a background in academia, and I have a BA in English and Fine Art, an MA in Literature and Culture 1700-1900, and a doctorate in the medical humanities. My thesis explored creative work produced by mental health patients for ‘asylum’ magazines between 1844 and 1918.

I love arts and culture (literature, fine art, theatre, etc), and am particularly drawn to anything involving the nineteenth century/neo-Victorianism, folklore, horror, and folk horror, ghosts and spiritualism, doomed explorations, occultism and the British landscape, big old stones, apocalypses and cataclysms, the sea, lesbian identities, food as art/politics/community, and the relationship between science and art.

Bylines at: Novara Media, History Today, Hyperallergic, The F Word, WOW247, The Queerness, and others. My work has also been published in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Metro, etc magazine, iNews, The Portsmouth News, Brighton & Hove Independent, and others.

I am also the owner of Little Violet Hours, an art shop offering original work, stickers, logo design, portraits, and all sorts of commission work. Check out my store here, and please get in contact if you’d like to talk about a potential project.

If you’d like to read more about my work and qualifications, please take a look at my CV (below).

Thanks for stopping by!