I was born in England in 1970, and read English at Cambridge University, before studying law. I qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and worked at various law firms in the south of England in the late nineties, specialising in divorce/family cases. I escaped to Helsinki in 2000, where I now live permanently. I've written two slightly dry but informative books on legal English, published respectively by Routledge and OUP (see list of works).
I started writing fiction in 2004. My short stories and articles have appeared in various publications, including Gold Dust magazine, Outercast, the Ginosko Literary Journal and Twisted Tongue. My one-act play 'The People's Act of Literature' was one of the winners of the Windsor Fringe Drama Award for 2008, and my 10-minute play, 'Anger Management for Dogs', won the 2009 Pint-Sized Play competition.
When not writing, I scrape a tenuous living as a legal English trainer, proofreader and editor through my firm, Forum Legal, and am co-proprietor of a rather splendid (if specialised) online emporium at www.legalenglishstore.com.