Publications

oldest wisest self – Substack

As a poet and writer living with complex mental illnesses, I write regularly on Substack as an attempt to understand myself, my relationships and an increasingly complicated world through the lens of my illnesses, treatments and craft.

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Recent posts:

i’m a picky eater and my therapist said it’s fine

what even is a personality

have i been secretly bipolar this whole time?

Poems (online)

Ghost Light Lit Issue #1: Grief Machine (February 2024)
An Irish Wake

Olney Journal (May 2023)
Emotional Impermanence

Peach Mag (March 2023)
working from home

The Spinoff (2022)
Listen, is it love?

Starling Mag (2020)
Slideshow

4th Floor Journal (2016)
Whirinaki

Poems (print)

Generations – A Landing Press Anthology – forthcoming
Inheritance

Reformatting The Pain Scale – Anthology (2023)
chronic

Landfall 244 (2022)
Our Little House

Re-draft 15 (2015)
Coins
When Your Therapist Asks Why You’re Crying
Write

Non-fiction

culture vulture (2024)
a little bit longer and i’ll be fine

Turbine | Kapohau (2022)
The Summer I Reclaimed the Beach

Starling Mag (2021)
This New, Brief Body

4th Floor Journal (2017)
Mirrors

Mashed Calculus and Differential Potatoes (2017)
A Policy A Day: Youth Sexuality Education

Fiction

Visible Cities (2023)
A new type of love

4th Floor Journal (2016)
Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong – Excerpt

Listen

Wellington Access Radio broadcast of “Crip the Lit” Verb Festival events
Universe-Hopping with Radical Crip Imagination
Letters to Disabled Friends

Peach Bite – Peach Mag (2023)
working from home – poetry reading

Wellington Access Radio, B-Side Stories (2021)
Al and Erin From Crip The Lit writers’ collective

Selected Performances and Events

Verb – Wellington – “Universe-Hopping with Radical Crip Imagination”
LitCrawl – Wellington – “Letters to Disabled Friends”
2023

Verb – Wellington – “Breaking the mould: acts of writerly sabotage”
2022

Featured poet at Schrödinger’s Books for National Poetry Day
2022

Verb – Wellington – “Writing Resistance: The Problem with Fairytales”
2021

Auckland Writers Festival – “Can We Be Frank?”
2018

Nelson Arts Festival – Readers and Writers Programme
2017

Awards

Finalist for Best First Book Award
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2018

Finalist for Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
2018

Mason Publishing Scholarship
2017

William Campbell Memorial Scholarship – Whitireia Foundation
2016
2015

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