I am a writer drawn to people, places and the way a life keeps unfolding long after we think we understand it.

My work sits at the intersection of memoir, travel writing, cultural observation and family story. I write about walking long distances through wild places, the stories told over plates of food, raising a child as a single mother while remaking a life in a small coastal town with epic beauty. Naturally drawn to stories of becoming and being, I have learned that belonging is rarely simple - the space in between chapters taht is captivating.

Before committing myself fully to writing, I worked for many years as a professional musician and academic, teaching at the university level and performing internationally. Music trained me to listen closely – to rhythm, silence and structure – and that attention now shapes how I approach language on the page.

I live in St Francis Bay and divide my working life between writing, running a memoir-writing business, developing children’s stories, and building small cultural gatherings around classical music and storytelling.

I am currently revising a full-length memoir and developing a second book about my years in Dresden, alongside a children’s series set in southern Africa.

On Substack, I publish twice weekly essays about travel, people I meet, food as memory, landscapes walked, family inheritance and the strange, wonderful business of paying attention.

For representation, speaking engagements or collaborations, you can reach me via the contact page.