I write poetry and short stories. I'm very interested in the kinds of language we use in poetry and write sometimes in my hometown accent and dialect.
My pamphlet, Mid Lands, was published in 2007 by Hearing Eye Press and I've been published in various magazines and anthologies, the most recent being Images of Women, published by Arrowhead Press 2006. Also in 2006 I was commended for the New Writing Ventures Award and launched my website.
I'm an editor on Brittle Star, a magazine for new voices and I'm one of the judges on the poetry section of the Koestler Competition - an arts competition for people in prisons, secure units and young offenders institutes in Britain.
I have an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam & now attend courses and workshops at The Poetry School. I am a reader for The Literary Consultancy.
Some writers I enjoy are Mimi Khalvati, Jeremy Hooker, Wordsworth,Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Hacker, Geoffrey Hill, Jorie Graham, George Herbert, T S Eliot, A L Kennedy, Jeanette Winterson, Italo Calvino and Terry Pratchett (but the list is endless).