A life with words

Growing up in a multicultural environment in Yorkshire, England, in a family full of books and music, gave me a wonderful start in life. My love for travel, culture and languages grew with me and I studied English Literature and French at the University of Edinburgh, where I wrote and edited for student publications and had my first opportunity to live in France. After University, I freelanced and interned as an editor for publications like The Independent, The Skinny, and Ink Publishing, writing reviews for Itchy City Guides and editing the website WheresCool before becoming a contributing editor at the eco-travel website Greentraveller.

Paris beckoned, and I combined freelance and creative writing with English language teaching both in France and Mexico before completing an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. In 2014, I started working as a junior lecturer at the New Sorbonne University in Paris, pursuing a range of translation, subtitling, writing and editing projects on the side for creative professionals, multinational brands, and websites.

I started my PhD at the University of Southern California and completed it at Paris 8 University. Lecturing at the New Sorbonne and Dauphine University in Paris and tutoring online and in person alongside, my research focused on lyric poetry, BAME writing, digital humanities and postcolonial studies, in the UK and France. I have published, edited and presented a range of articles both for specialists and the general public, and I successfully defended my PhD in January 2024. Today, I am continuing my research in Literature, shifting to ecopoetry and minority writers, working as an expert freelance writer and editor for a range of books, authors, websites, publications, and companies, tutoring for professionals and literature students. Language remains my first love and my poetry practice is ever expanding, with a range of published poems, performances, and a forthcoming first collection.

I split my time between France and the UK and am available for projects, commissions and collaborations.

PhD: Lyrisme post-migratoire en France et en Angleterre (1997-2023) : Voix d’une génération au carrefour des littératures nationales et de la culture populaire mondialisée. / Post-migratory Lyricism in England and France (1997-2023): Voices of a generation at the crossroads of national literary traditions and globalised popular culture.