I’m a writer living in Naarm/Melbourne.
I started out writing poems, which have appeared intermittently in Australian journals from 2009. I published my first collection of poems and prose, Entries, in 2020.
I also love the essay form and have been working more in that lately. I’m most excited by hybrid essays in a creative or lyric mode, but with sustained and substantiated analysis.
The essay that has elicited the most responses out of all of my work, in any genre, is ‘Ramanujan’s Bridge: Reflections on Identity, Lived and Imagined’ (2020). You can read it at Peril magazine.
I hold a PhD about ABC Radio National’s Poetica program, which ran from 1997 to 2014 in Australia. My doctorate looked at how Australian poets were represented on the show, and how their poetry was adapted from the page to radio sound, through the rubric of Australian national identity – which is a requirement of ABC programming, as per the broadcaster’s Charter.
I was a judge of the 2023 Mary Gilmore Award for a best first collection of poems, and was a convening judge of the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. I was a recipient of the 2020 Emerging Critics Fellowship at the Sydney Review of Books.
I used to produce cultural and literary radio programs, especially on poets and other writers. In the last few years, I’ve shifted away from audio production to writing, but I’ve produced dozens of sonically rich literary programs for ABC radio and Red Room Company, which you can listen to here.
