I'm a writer, poet and performer based in rural Devon, near Exeter. My work explores identity, belonging and our connection to place.

My writing comes from paying attention: to landscape, people, place and to the things we say and don't say. My creative nonfiction and poetry appear in journals and anthologies including Caught by the River, The Clearing (Little Toller Books), The Guardian, Spelt, Ink Sweat & Tears and Brittle Star. I'm currently developing an Arts Council England–funded book on migration, memory and belonging, tracing four generations of my family across Tamil Nadu, Norfolk and Devon.

Alongside my writing practice, I work with organisations who want to communicate with more humanity. I've worked with charities, arts organisations, health and research bodies and environmental causes on communications and arts projects — including Rape Crisis England & Wales, NIHR, Royal Devon NHS Partnership Trust, Literature Works, Exeter Unesco City of Literature, and the University of Exeter — and I bring the same attention to language and story to that work as I do to my own writing.

I also run workshops and creative sessions for writers, community groups and organisations, and I've produced and hosted literary events, open mics and community storytelling projects across the South West. I believe in the power of people telling their own stories, and I try to create the conditions for that wherever I work.

I run two groups for writers and creatives in the South West - a small writers' support group for people working on longer projects, and a monthly gathering for creatives built around connection, curiosity and mutual support.

I live in Sandford near Exeter, where I garden wildly and spend far too much time talking to the birds

If you'd like to work together — on a commission, a workshop, a communications project or something you're not sure how to describe yet — I'd love to hear from you.