BA in English Literature & Creative Writing (Aberystwyth University),

MA in English Literature & Creative Writing (Aberystwyth University),

PhD in Creative Writing (Aberystwyth University),

PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education & Training (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)

I currently work as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University in addition to my role as a Lifelong Learning Tutor at Aberystwyth University. I have also taught at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and have regularly published poetry and fiction in a variety of journals, magazines, and blogs.

I grew up in Pembrokeshire, South-West Wales, writing lyrics in a punk band, as well as stories for my own enjoyment. By the time I'd set off to Aberystwyth for university I'd moved from lyrics to poetry (my love for stories remained as the bass guitar gathered dust), via poets like Patrick Jones, Katherine Stansfield, and Carol Ann Duffy.

My research interests are writing poetry through mass global events (following the publication of a book of poems, Empty Trains, rooted in the Covid-19 pandemic) and fiction and poetry engaging in nostalgia and the act of recollection – does the memory cheat? My PhD thesis was a novel following a family across one hundred years in Pembrokeshire with aspects of magical realism 

I currently work as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University in addition to my role as a Lifelong Learning Tutor at Aberystwyth University. I have also taught at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and have regularly published poetry and fiction in a variety of journals, magazines, and blogs.

I grew up in Pembrokeshire, South-West Wales, writing lyrics in a punk band, as well as stories for my own enjoyment. By the time I'd set off to Aberystwyth for university I'd moved from lyrics to poetry (my love for stories remained as the bass guitar gathered dust), via poets like Patrick Jones, Katherine Stansfield, and Carol Ann Duffy. My research interests are writing poetry through mass global events (following the publication of a book of poems, Empty Trains, rooted in the Covid-19 pandemic) and fiction and poetry engaging in nostalgia and the act of recollection – does the memory cheat? My PhD thesis was a novel following a family across one hundred years in Pembrokeshire with aspects of magical realism (enabling the nostalgic elements to ‘come alive’), accompanied by a critical commentary on temporality and the structure of the novel.Writing to collaborate with others is a rewarding interest I've been working on for the last few years – I've written poems to a brief for anthologies about Pembrokeshire, video games, and Anne Shakespeare, as well as fiction engaging with green hydrogen engineers and the age of misinformation.