Photograph: Fay Murphy
I have been a freelance writer and editor for 15 years. I work closely with authors to write, shape and edit their work and secure publication, alongside commercial editorial work for brands such as Timberland and journalism for the BBC and elsewhere. My own novel, Wild Cloth, will be published in 2022 by HarperCollins, following a rather unusual chain of events. My agent is Jenny Hewson at Lutyens & Rubinstein.
I have been lucky enough to turn my obsession with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group into ongoing work at Charleston, where I have been Reader in Residence since 2018, running events, courses and groups to discover Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group through their texts. In 2020, I was commissioned by Charleston to write a script about the remarkable marriage of Lydia Lopokova and Maynard Keynes, to be performed by Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies in July 2021.
I have been a tutor on the Creative Writing Programme in Brighton for several years and am a tutor and ‘Book Doctor’ with Jericho Writers. I devised and deliver the Life Writing course at Charleston, and also run my own courses in the community and online.